Meyer v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted on a complaint charging malicious mischief and was fined $200.00.

Appellant lived on a three-acre tract of ground inclosed by a fence of three wires in which he kept some stock. A neighbor had an adjoining tract, a little smaller in size, on which he kept three horses. The fence between them apparently was inadequate to keep the stock separated and appellant sought to make it effective by charging the top wire with electricity. This was done by connecting it with the electric light wires in his home, carrying one hundred and ten volts. The practice of…