McKim

The defendant was tried before a jury upon an information charging him with contributing to the delinquency of a minor child. Prom the judgment following the verdict of conviction and from the order denying his motion for a new trial he has appealed upon a typewritten record.

The information charged in the language of section 21 of the Juvenile Court Act that the defendant sold a quantity of intoxicating liquor to a minor of the age of sixteen years and that he thereby caused and tended to cause the said minor to come within the provisions of subdivisions 1 to 13, inclusive, of section 1 of the Juvenile Court Act, and thereby caused said minor to become a person coming within the provisions of the same subdivisions of section 1 of that act. The evidence disclosed that on the day named in the information the defendant, who was conducting a barber-shop in the city of Oakland, sold a quantity of whisky to the boy named in the information, who was at the time of the age of sixteen shears; that this minor, in company with a boy friend, drank the liquor purchased from the defendant and became so intoxicated that he was unable to return to his home, but was taken into custody by the…