State v. Gordineer

The defendant was indicted for the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and defendant appeals.

The indictment charges two acts by the defendant as acts tending to cause any minor to become a delinquent child. In this appeal we are concerned with only one of the acts charged, and that is that the defendant “did then and there wilfully give alcoholic liquor to said child.”

The court instructed the jury in pertinent part as follows:

“Whether or not Janice Marlene Collins is a child under the age of eighteen years, and whether or not the…