Hartgraves v. State

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction upon an indictment alleging that the appellant contributed to the delinquency of nine named children under 17 years of age “by acting in conjunction with said minor children in causing, encouraging and permitting said minor children to drink alcoholic beverages, to wit beer, which action on the part of the said Jimmy B. Hartgraves tended to injure and debase the morals, health and welfare of said minor children * *

The court, in his'charge, instructed the jury that the evidence showed that one of the named children was over 17 years of…