In re the Delinquency of Lundy

Citations

• 82 Wash. 148
• 143 P. 885
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1612

Syllabus

<p>Infants — Offenses — Juvenile Delinquents — Statutes — Construction. The juvenile court law, 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1987-1, is not punitive in its nature or purpose, but protective, and while strictly construed as to restraint of liberty without due process, is, in other respects, to be liberally construed to effectuate its beneficent purpose.</p> <p>Same — Juvenile Delinquents — Statutes—Application — Effect of Marriage. The juvenile court law, 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1987-1, defining delinquent and dependent children under the age of eighteen years, makes the age, not minority, the controlling element, and applies to a girl under eighteen years of age married to a man of full age, notwithstanding Rem. & Bal. Code, § 8744, declaring “all females married to a person of full age shall be deemed and taken to be of full age.”</p> <p>Same — Juvenile Delinquents — Statutes — Construction — “Place” Where Liquor Is Sold. The juvenile court law (subdiv. 10 of 3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1987-1) making it unlawful for children under eighteen years of age to habitually visit “any billiard room or pool room or any saloon, or place where spirituous . . . liquors are sold” applies to restaurants where such liquors are sold, and it is immaterial that the delinquent child under the age of eighteen habitually visited such restaurant as a singer for hire; as singing by juveniles in such places is no necessary part of the business and is without any exculpatory element.</p>