Beutel v. State

This cause is here on error from the criminal branch of the Municipal Court of the city of Lakewood, wherein upon affidavit founded on Section 12429, General Code of Ohio, plaintiff in error, Della Beutel, was convicted, and it is well to have in mind the language of the statute, which is as follows: “Whoever, being an adult resident of the state and possessed of or able to earn means sufficient to provide food, shelter, care and clothing for his or her parent, within this state, who is destitute by [of] means of subsistence' and unable either by reason of old age, infirmity or illness to…