State v. Mitts

Defendants Carl Mitts and Sam Sloan, Jr., were convicted, after trial to the court without a jury, of the violation of what is now § 578.060, RSMo 1978. That statute provides in part: “If any person shall impound or confine or cause to be impounded or confined in any pound or other place any animal or creature and fail to supply the same during such confinement of sufficient food and water ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ...” The punishment assessed was a fine of $200 each. From such judgment and sentence the defendants have appealed to this court, complaining that the evidence…