State v. Greenlees

At the March term, 1883, of the circuit court of Horsey county, William Greenlees was indicted for needlessly killing a living creature, the indictment alleging that said Greenlees, in the county aforesaid, on or about the fifteenth day of December, A. D., 1882, did unlawfully and needlessly kill one red, sandy-colored, barrow, marked crop off the left ear and split and underbit in the right, of the value of twelve dollars, and of the personal property of C. W. Willingham, contrary to the statute, etc.

The defendant demurred to the indictment on the following grounds:

1. “That the facts alleged…