State v. Carter

Defendant’s principal contention is that he cannot be convicted under Section 2151.42, Revised Code, for failing to support a child since there has been no previous judicial determination that he is the father of that child. State v. Parker (1948), 82 Ohio App., 235, 78 N. E. (2d), 427, and State, ex rel. Fisher, v. McKinney (1949), 55 Ohio Law Abs., 190, 85 N. E. (2d), 562, seem to require such a conclusion. However, in State v. Snyder (1952), 157 Ohio St., 15, 104 N. E. (2d), 169, which involved a prosecution under the same statute (then Section 1639-46, General Code), paragraph two of the…