Embry v. State

An indictment entitled an “Indictment for Contributing to Child Delinquency” was returned against the appellants. They were tried by jury in the Warrick Circuit Court. From an adverse verdict, they appeal.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictment charges that said defendants, “on the 27th day of September, A.D., 1949, at said County and State aforesaid, did then and there, unlawfully cause and encourage, one Shirley Joe Ahrens, a girl under the age of sixteen years, to-wit: thirteen years, to unlawfully and knowingly violate the compulsory school attendance law, by preventing her from…