State v. Adams

Citations

• 95 Wash. 189
• 163 P. 403
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 777

Syllabus

<p>Infants — Offenses Against — Contributing to Delinquency— Statutes — Construction. Keeping in view the beneficent purpose of the juvenile court law, in a prosecution under Rem. Code, § 1987-17, providing that, in all cases where a child “shall be dependent or delinquent,” any person who shall “cause” or contribute to the dependency or delinquency shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, it is not necessary to allege that the child was dependent or delinquent prior to the commission of defendant’s acts “causing” delinquency, or that the acts charged contributed to a preexisting state or condition of delinquency; especially in view of Id., § 1987-1 defining a dependent child as one who from any cause is in danger of growing up to lead an idle or immoral life.</p> <p>Same — Offenses Against — Contributing to Delinquency — Evidence — Sufficiency. The evidence is sufficient to warrant a conviction of causing the dependency of a female child under the age of eighteen years by putting her in danger of leading an immoral life, under Rem. Code, § 1987-17, where it appears that defendants, a married woman 19 years of age and a young man, jointly accused, invited a girl sixteen years of age to a restaurant reputed to be a resort for prostitutes, where they drank beer, and proposed obtaining a room in a hotel in which to spend the night together.</p>