Holmes' Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 1954-11-23

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Dissenting Opinion by Mr. Justice Musmanno : In upholding the commitment of Joseph Holmes, a minor, to the Pennsylvania Industrial School at White Hill, a reformatory, the Majority uses the argument employed down through the centuries by Spartan parents, namely, that disciplinary treatment is administered to a child only for his own good. But this approach to the problem before us completely misses the <…

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