Arnold v. State

The plaintiffs in error, Elias Arnold and Arthur Arnold, hereinafter referred to as the defendants, as they were in the trial court, were indicted by the grand jury of said county and later convicted by a petit jury in the court of common pleas for stealing one Melvin Horst, a minor child under 12 years of age, the said Elias Arnold was sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary for a minimum period of 20 years and the said Arthur Arnold to the Ohio state reformatory for an indefinite period.

On the night of Thursday, December 27, 1928, said Melvin Horst, a boy four and one-half years of age, failed…