State v. Abbott
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for wounding and maiming a certain “ red, three year old steer.” After a verdict of guilty, the respondent moved in arrest of judgment, for .the insufficiency-of the indictment; which motion was overruled by the court, April Term, 1845, — Redfield, J., presiding. Exceptions by respondent.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The only question, raised in the present case, is in regard to the sufficiency of the indictment. It is for a violation of the statute against maiming, or wounding, cattle. The objection *538is, that the defendant is charged with wounding a steer, without alleging, that a steer is “ cattle, or other beast,” — which are the words of the statute. It is very possible, that some of the old cases may have adopted a degree of strictness, equal to this, even. But no modern case of this character existSj it is believed; but the contrary has often been…
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