Torrance v. State

In the trial court appellant was charged, tried, and convicted for the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a girl fifteen years of age by causing and encouraging her to drink intoxicating liquors and to be guilty of “vicious and immoral conduct” alleged by the affidavit charging the offense to be too vicious and immoral to be set forth therein. No motion of any kind was addressed to the affidavit, and upon arraignment the appellant pleaded not guilty. On appellant’s motion the cause was thereafter submitted to a jury for trial, which resulted in a verdict as follows: “We, the jury,…