Clements v. State

Ruth Clements was convicted in the Allen Common Pleas of contributing to the delinquency of one Kenneth Helsel, a minor sixteen years of age. The act charged constituting the offense, was the selling of a pint of intoxicating liquor to said minor, who drank the same and became intoxicated on Feb. 3, 1924.

The state in making its case, introduced in evidence, over the objection of Clements, the journal of the probate court which showed that on Feb. 8, 1924, the said Kenneth Helsel was found guilty of being a delinquent child, having committed the act or acts as charged in the complaint filed…