State v. Merrill

This was an indictment against Merrill for a malicious trespass. The Circuit Court, on motion of the defendant, quashed the indictment.

The indictment states that the jurors, &c. “upon their oath present, that Richard Merrill, late of said county, on the 10th day of July, in the year 1832, with force and arms, at the county aforesaid, one cow of the value of twelve dollars, of the personal property of one Jacob Trees, of said county, then and there did maliciously and unlawfully injure, maim, and wound, to the great damage of him the said Jacob Trees, to wit, the damage of six dollars,…