Waters v. the People

This prosecution, instituted by the Humane Society, before a justice of the peace of El Paso county, where the plaintiff in error (defendant below) was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine, resulted in a conviction and a fine in the county court of that county in the trial upon defendant’s appeal. To this latter judgment the defendant prosecutes his writ of error in this court.

In the county court, by an agreement of parties, the cause was submitted to the decision of the court, without a jury, upon this agreed statement of facts :

“The defendant was at the time of the matter complained of…