Salisbury

The charge against the defendant is contained in an information whereby the defendant was accused by the district attorney of the crime of misdemeanor, to wit, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, committed as follows : ‘1 The said Frank A. Salisbury on or about the 8th day of March, A. D. One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-one, at the County of Tulare, State of California, and before the filing of this Information, did willfully and unlawfully have and accomplish an act of sexual intercourse with and upon one Mary Schlotthauer, a female under the age of twenty-one years, to-wit, of the age of about nineteen years, the said Mary Scholtthauer not being then and there the wife of the said Frank A. Salisbury, contrary to the form, force and effect of the Statute in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the People of the State of California.” It is of course apparent that this information did not charge the crime of rape, or any other offense denounced by the Penal Code. Although it does not appear by any statement in the record that the proceedings were under the juvenile court law, or that the defendant was tried before the superior court…