Jordan v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Cherokee Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Jeff Jordan was convicted of unlawfully permitting stock to run at large, and appeals. The indictment was as follows: “Jeff Jordan, a person owning or having the possession, custody, or control of live stock, to wit, hogs, did unlawfully and knowingly permit said hogs to run at large, or be at large,, in a stock law district or territory wherein live stock are prohibited by law to run at large.”
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Appeal from Cherokee Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Jeff Jordan was convicted of unlawfully permitting stock to run at large, and appeals. The indictment was as follows: “Jeff Jordan, a person owning or having the possession, custody, or control of live stock, to wit, hogs, did unlawfully and knowingly permit said hogs to run at large, or be at large,, in a stock law district or territory wherein live stock are prohibited by law to run at large.” The demurrers-were: Failure to charge on whose land said stock were permitted to run at large; failure to allege damages, and by…
1Opinion of the Court
PELHAM, J. —
The defendant ivas convicted for a violation of the act approved August 39, 1909 (Acts Ala. Sp. Sess. 1909, pp. 41, 42), providing that it shall be a misdemeanor for a person owning, or having in his custody or control, live stock, to permit such stock to run at large in any stock law district .or territory in which such stock are prohibited by Law to run at large. The appeal is on the record without a bill of exceptions. The contention of appellant is that the indictment is not sufficient, and that the court was in error in overruling demurrers to it.
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