Chambers v. State

Gardner, J.(a) The defendant was convicted on an indictment drawn under the provisions of the Code, § 26-8001, which reads as follows: “Whoever shall torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, mutilate, cruelly, unreasonably and maliciously beat or ill treat any child, or cause any of said acts to be done, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” The count on which the defendant was found guilty under the indictment, omitting the formal parts reads: “ . . on the 8th day of January, 1951, [the defendant] did with force and arms and unlawfully cruelly ill-treat a said newly born bastard baby…