Murphy v. State

The'plaintiff in error, Murphy, was-indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Robertson county for permitting his hogs to run at large in that county, and adjudged to pay a fine of $25, from which judgment he has brought the case to this court by appeal in the nature of a writ of error.

The indictment is preferred under chapter 499, p. 1342, of the Acts of the general assembly of 1903, entitled “An act to prohibit the running at large of hogs, sheep and goats in counties having a population of not less than 25,000, and not more than 25,100, according to the federal census of 1900, or any…