Hayes v. State

This appellant was tried and convicted for the offense of wanton or malicious injury to an animal. The indictment charged that he unlawfully, wantonly, or maliciously killed, etc., a horse, the property of Griffin Johnson, etc.

The corpus delicti was proven without conflict or dispute, and the controlling question of course -vyas whether or not this defendant committed the unlawful act complained of in the indictment. On this material inquiry there was direct and also circumstantial evidence tending- to establish his guilty agency. On the other hand the defendant strenuously denied that he…