State v. Samter

HOLMAN, J. (Pro Tempore.)

Each defendant was charged with two separate violations of OBS 163.650 whieh provides:

“Any person, not being a parent of the child, who knowingly and wilfully cruelly mistreats and maltreats a child under the age of 16 years, shall be punished * * (Emphasis ours.)

Each indictment contained three identical counts of cruel mistreatment and maltreatment. They were:

Bequiring a child to stand naked at night in near freezing temperatures while being sprayed with water from a garden hose;

Beating him with a wooden paddle while naked;

Bequiring him to smoke and swallow tobacco…