This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol4 Torts, Damages, Domestic Relations", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
An infant is responsible for a crime committed by him when he is of sufficient intelligence to understand the nature of his act. Under the age of seven he is conclusively presumed incapable of committing crime; between the ages of seven and fourteen, he is presumed incapable, but this presumption may be still rebutted; above the age of fourteen he is presumed capable of committing a crime.
 
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