Denton v. State

— Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of the Orange Circuit Court for violating §9 of an act of . the legislature approved March 6, 1897, entitled an act “regulating the taxing of dogs,” etc. Acts 1897, p. 178.

A motion to quash the indictment was overruled, and upon a trial by the court appellant was convicted of the charge, and fined in the sum of $1. From this judgment he appeals, and assigns as error the action of the trial court in denying his motion to quash the indictment. The constitutional validity of the statute upon which this prosecution is based is assailed.

The indictment is…