People v. De Leon

The defendant, Maurice De Leon, was convicted by a jury of a misdemeanor, consisting in the alleged violation of the provisions of section 21 of the juvenile court law approved June 5, 1915, by the doing or omission of acts which tended to and did encourage, cause, and contribute to the delinquency of a minor.

The information charged and the proofs showed that the said defendant was at the time of his alleged offense the manager of a café in the city and county of San Francisco known as the Paris-Louvre, where intoxicating liquors were sold and consumed; that among the duties of said defendant was that of keeping and preventing minors under the age of eighteen years from visiting said place, and of preventing the sale or delivery of any intoxicating drink to such persons therein. The. evidence showed that upon the evening of February 3, 1917, while the said defendant was the manager of said café and was present and engaged in the performance of his duties there, a girl seventeen years old visited the café with a male companion named Sawyer at about the hour of midnight, remaining about three-quarters of an hour, and that while there she ordered and was served with two gin fizzes…