Hemma

By information the defendant was accused of a misdemeanor committed as follows: It was charged that the defendant, on or about the eighth day of May, 1928, in the county of Riverside, committed a certain described act which “tended to cause, encourage, and contribute to one Rosalie Zilly who was then and there a female person under the age of twenty-one years, to come within and remain a person within the provisions of Section One” of the Juvenile Court Law. (Stats. 1915, p. 1225.) The particular act charged was that the defendant wrote and delivered a note to said minor asking her to meet him at some eucalyptus trees that night between the hours of 9:30 and 11 o’clock, and that said defendant did thereby attempt to induce and entice said minor to meet him privately at said eucalyptus trees, which were in a remote and secluded spot. There were further allegations showing the absence of any lawful reason or occasion for such an invitation by defendant to said minor.

At the trial defendant waived trial by jury, and the case was presented to the court on a stipulation of facts. The note as delivered by defendant read as follows: “Tonight will wait down east Road where the Blue Gum…