PEOPLE v. BROGAN, 331 Ill. App. 404 (1947)

73 N.E.2d 133

Term No. 47F10. (Abstract of Decision.)Appellate Court of Illinois.
Opinion filed April 28, 1947 Released for publication June 2, 1947

INCOMPETENTS AND DELINQUENTS, § 16[*] — neglected children, verdict as against weight of evidence. Verdict, finding that children were neglected, that their father was unfit to care for them and that it was for best interests of both State and children that they be taken from his custody, was not against weight of evidence in proceedings under Juvenile Court Act, where mother had died and evidence showed that children were undernourished, received little parental care and frequently attended school dirty and inadequately clothed, that purchase of food and preparation of meals in home had been haphazard, that there had been considerable truancy on part of one child, and that

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father had not been co-operative with school and public health officials, and there was evidence of immoral conduct on part of father (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1945, ch. 23, par. 190; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 19.081).

Error to the County Court of Saline county; the Hon. DON SCOTT, Judge, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in this court at the February term, 1947.

H.R. Lightfoot, of Harrisburg, for plaintiffs in error;

K.C. Ronalds, State’s Attorney, of Harrisburg, for defendant in error;

Lloyd H. Melton, Assistant State’s Attorney, of Harrisburg, of counsel.

Opinion by JUSTICE SMITH.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed April 28, 1947; released for publication June 2, 1947.