Saunders v. People

Plaintiff in error, Mrs. N. V. Saunders, was convicted in the County Court of Chaffee County on an information charging that she:

“Did wilfully, unnecessarily and unlawfully torture, torment and cruelly punish one Lenice Saunders, a female child of fourteen years of age, the said child being then and there under the custody and care of the said Mrs. N. Y. Saunders, the said torture, torment and cruel punishment being inflicted by beating the said child with a stick in a brutal and unlawful manner and inflicting upon the ■said child great and serious bodily injury.”'

The court entered judgment…