Oliver

defendant was convicted in the superior court of Shasta County of the crime of contributing to the dependency of an alleged dependent child, and appeals to this court from the judgment and. the order denying him a new trial.

The information upon which he was tried and convicted reads as follows That on or about the fourteenth day of June, 1915, at the town of Cottonwood, in the said county of Shasta, state of California, one Josephine Fa Mar, then and there a female minor child, under the age of eighteen years, to wit; of the age of fifteen years, was then and there a female dependent minor child, in this, that the said Josephine Fa Mar had no parent or guardian capable of exercising proper parental control over the said Josephine Fa Mar, and for want of such parental control, said Josephine Fa Mar was and is wayward and addicted to vicious habits, and was and is in danger of being brought up to lead an idle, dissolute and immoral life, and that the said defendant then and there willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, on or about the said fourteenth day of June, 1915, at Cottonwood, in the said county of Shasta, state of California, did encourage, cause, and contribute to the…