State v. Williams

At the April term of the Circuit Court within and for the cJfonty of Polk, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the defendant, William Williams, was indicted by the grand jury. The indictment charges that the defendant, at, &c., on, &c., did then and there take up a stray, to-wit, one stray steer, which was not then and there claimed and proved within five days from the day of taking up the same ; and that *390said defendant did not, within five days from the day of taking up said stray, take the said steer before a justice of the peace, &c., and make oath that said steer was…