WEDMORE v. State of Indiana

Dissenting Opinion

I concur in the majority opinion excepting that portion which holds that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict. The appellants were convicted of contributing to the delinquency of minors “by knowingly, wilfully, encouraging and causing said Nancy Marie Reed, Martha Ann Richards, and Carroll Bauer to use intoxicants, to-wit: Beer as a beverage, contrary to the form of statute.” The offense charged is specific *350and limited to the sole act' of encouraging minors to use beer and nothing more. There is no evidence, in -my opinion, that the appellants by any positive…