State v. Westfall

Fox, Judge:

The defendant complains of the judgment of the Circuit Court of Roane County imposing upon him a fine and imprisonment, based upon the verdict of. a jury finding him guilty of contributing to the delinquency of Dorothy Nichols, a female child of the age of fifteen years. A motion to set aside the verdict was overruled by the court, and judgment entered thereon as aforesaid, and to such action of the court we awarded this writ of error.

The sufficiency of the indictment is raised upon the motion to set aside the verdict, it being contended that the indictment is not sufficient, for…