Brown

The appellant was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a fifteen-year old girl, the in formation having been predicated upon the terms' of the juvenile court law (Stats. 1915, p. 1225; Deering’s Gen. Laws, p. 766), section 21, which provides 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 any of subdivisions 1 to 13 inclusive of section 1 of this act, or which act or omission contributes thereto, or any person who shall, by any act or omission, or by threats, or commands, or persuasion, induce or endeavor to induce any such person, under the age of twenty-one years, to do or to perform any act or to follow any course of conduct, or to so live as would cause or manifestly tend to cause any such person to become or to remain a person coming within the provisions of any of subdivisions 1 to 13 inclusive of section 1 of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” Subdivision 8 of section 1 of the act provides that the act shall apply to any person under the age of twenty-one years, “who habitually uses…