Branch v. State

Reeves, Associate Justice.

The indictment charges appellant and John Lawler with killing a hog belonging to John Wilson, and avers that it was done unlawfully, willfully, and wantonly, and appellant being convicted and fined five dollars, he prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment was found under the statute punishing malicious mischief, and which provides, in art. 2345, Pas. Dig.: “If any person shall willfully and wantonly kill, maim, wound, poison, or cruelly and unmercifully beat and abuse any dumb animal, such as is enumerated in the preceding article, he shall be fined not exceeding two…