61.   R. Eugene Pimcham, a former judge and mayoral candidate who is representing the older boy, disputed the charges.

62.   Ruthye Yarborough remembers toting buckets of water into the one-room schoolhouse and passing her broken pencils to older boys who sharpened the points with pocket knives.

63.   She has turned sullen and sarcastic and has begun hanging out with a group of older boys who are constantly in trouble with the law.

64.   She handed the two older boys a tiny overnight bag and a cookie tin.

65.   Sheriff Womack said the episode began when Wilson and three older boys were climbing freight car ladders while the train was stopped at a switching area in Millen.

66.   Sisk said Messano, the prosecutor, planned to charge the three older boys as adults.

67.   Sitting in the yard, tending the flames, I thought up a scheme to get the older boys on my side.

68.   Sometimes Jacob had friends home without permission, and he was malleable, especially when pressed by older boys.

69.   So you would think everything is fine, but I have trouble with the older boy.

70.   Still, the older boys pose problems, Denial said.