No person shall knowingly engage in or be employed at cockfighting, bearbaiting, or pitting an animal against another, no person shall receive money for the admission of another to a place kept for this purpose; no person shall use, train, or possess any animal for seizing, detaining, or maltreating a domestic animal. Any person who knowingly purchases a ticket of admission to such place, or is present thereat, or witnesses such spectacle, is an aider and abettor.
(R.C. § 959.15) ('81 Code § 90.14) Penalty, see § 90.99