State v. Lightfoot
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Geclar District Court. — Hon. H. M. Remley, Judge. The defendant was convicted of tbe crime of exposing a poisonous substance, with intent that it should be taken by a horse, 'and from a judgment which required that he be imprisoned in the county jail for the period of nine and one-half months, and pay the costs of the prosecution, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The indictment charges that the defendant, “on the 3d day of May, A. D. 1894, did willfully and unlawfully expose a certain poisonous susbtance, to-wit, strychnine, by placing the same in or about the feed trough of a certain domestic animal, to-wit, a horse, Mollie Cedar, the intent then and there being that the said horse Mollie Cedar should take the said poisonous substance, the said horse being then and there the property of J. P. Stotler, contrary to the statutes of Iowa and in violation thereof.” The evidence tends to show that, in the night following the day specified in the…
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