City of Pascagoula v. Delmas

Appellees were convicted in the city police court of the violation of an ordinance which made it an offense against the city for any person to “knowingly, wilfully or negligently permit or cause” any cow, or other animal of that kind, to run at large within the municipal boundaries of appellant city. On appeal to the circuit court, and on the trial therein, the circuit judge sustained a motion to exclude the evidence in behalf of the city and for a peremptory instruction, and appellees were acquitted.

“An appeal from a. judgment ... of acquittal pursuant to an instruction to the jury so to do…