Steen v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from Isilene J. Steen’s ("appellant’s”) conviction of simple battery committed upon Mrs. Cornelia Webb, while Mrs. Webb was a patient in an informal "nursing home” operated by appellant in her own home. Appellant was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment.

At trial, the state’s evidence tended to outline a Dickensian horror *633story in which appellant took in Mrs. Webb, an elderly welfare recipient, purporting to offer care and shelter, and actually pocketed Mrs. Webb’s welfare checks; forced her to labor in appellant’s home and even to wash appellant’s…