State v. Mitchell

¶1 — The State charged Marilea R. Mitchell with first degree criminal mistreatment after deputies discovered a severely malnourished four-year-old boy in her care. The State’s amended information alleged that Mitchell, “a person who has assumed the responsibility to provide to a dependent person the basic necessities of life,” recklessly caused great bodily harm to a “child or dependent person” by withholding those basic necessities of life. Clerk’s Papers (CP) at 26. Mitchell now claims insufficient evidence supports her conviction because the terms “child” and “dependent person” are…