In re Boykin

Theophelus Boykin, a minor, was adjudicated a delinquent in the juvenile division of the circuit court of Cook County, and
after a social investigation he was placed on probation. The charge against him was that he had carried a concealed weapon,
and in this court he contends that the adjudication of delinquency and the subsequent order of probation must be reversed
because the adjudication was based solely on evidence illegally seized in violation of his constitutional rights. On February 17, 1967, the appellant was a student in a Chicago high school. Two police officers, assigned to the school,
were sitting in their squad car in front of the school when the assistant principal sent for them and told them that he had
received anonymous information that one of the students had a gun. The officers accompanied the assistant principal and another
teacher to a classroom and then waited in the hall outside. The appellant testified that another boy was brought out with
him, but the officer testified that only the defendant was brought from the classroom into the hall. One of the officers ordered
the appellant not to move his hands and asked if he had a gun. The appellant said he did not, whereupon one officer held his
arms while the other removed a gun from his pants pocket. At the hearing which was conducted on the appellant's motion to
suppress the evidence of the search, one of the officers testified that the assistant principal had told them that he had
received anonymous information that one of the students had a pistol.