Murrah v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Colfax County. Hon. J. A. Orr, Judge. Plaintiff in error was indicted at the August term, 1878, of the circuit court of Colfax county, for unlawfully marking an animal, the property of John Thomas Barton, under § 2508 of the Code of 1871. He was tried at the August term, 1874, of said court, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for fiise years, from which judgment he prosecutes this writ of error.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of Colfax County. Hon. J. A. Orr, Judge. Plaintiff in error was indicted at the August term, 1878, of the circuit court of Colfax county, for unlawfully marking an animal, the property of John Thomas Barton, under § 2508 of the Code of 1871. He was tried at the August term, 1874, of said court, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for fiise years, from which judgment he prosecutes this writ of error. The following are the assignments of error: 1. The court erred in overruling the prisoner’s motion to quash the bill of indictment. 2. The court erred in…
1Opinion of the CourtTarbell, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, convicted and senten*678ced, under the Code, § 2508, for unlawfully marking an animal of another, without the consent of the owner. To the judgment of conviction the accused prosecuted a writ of error, and assigns numerous causes why the judgment should be reversed.
The statute under which this conviction was had reads as follows : “ If any person, knowingly, shall mark or brand any animal, the property of another, with a mark or brand not that of the owner, without the consent of the owner, or without authority of law, he shall, on conviction thereof,…
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