Wilkerson

On conviction of the offense commonly known as that of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, defendant was sentenced to a term of eighteen months in the county jail. He appeals from the judgment.

Subdivision 11 of section 1 of the Juvenile Court Law (Stats. 1915, p. 1225, as variously amended), contains the provision that it shall apply to one “who is leading, or from any cause is in danger of leading, an idle, dissolute, lewd or immoral life”; and by section 21 of the same act, among other things, it is provided that “any person who shall commit any act or omit the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes or tends to cause or encourage any person under the age of twenty-one years to come within the provisions” of the statute, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

The information under which defendant was prosecuted charged that he “did wilfully and unlawfully commit acts and omit duties hereinafter more particularly set forth, to-wit: That the said defendant Squire Granville Wilkerson did wilfully and unlawfully encourage and allow one Virginia Myers to evade the officers and to hide away from her parents and her probation officer and the police, and to go to Tia…