People v. Martin

The defendants were jointly tried in the superior court of Orange County on an information charging them with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, one Ivory Shields, a youth over the age of twenty years, in that they did solicit, induce and procure said Shields to purchase for them eight ounces of intoxicating liquor, in violation of the Wright Act, and did furnish and give said intoxicating liquor to said Shields to drink.

On March 24, 1925, the jury returned a verdict finding the defendants guilty as charged in the information. On the same day the defendants presented a motion for a…