McCloskey v. State

The appellant was convicted of cruelty to animals under § 10-205, Burns’ 1933 (1942 Replacement) , § 2863, Baldwin’s 1934, which provides that “. . . whoever, having charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts needless cruelty upon the same, ... or cruelly or unnecessarily fails to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter or protection from the weather, shall, on conviction be fined.The affidavit on which appellant was tried and convicted stated that the appellant, on a specified date, in said county and state “did then and there have charge and custody of…