People v. . Knatt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the appellate division of the supreme court in the fourth judicial department, affirming a judgment of the Monroe county court of sessions, entered upon a verdict convicting the defendant of the crime of willfully and maliciously destroying personal property, and also affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial, and an order overruling defendant’s demurrer to the indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
The defendant was indicted and convicted under section 654 of the Penal Code for the crime of willfully and maliciously destroying personal property. The specific act charged in the indictment is, that the defendant willfully and maliciously mixed poison with salt, and scattered the same in a pasture where the cattle of another were kept, with the intent that the poison so mixed with salt should be taken by the cattle; that it was so taken, and as a result three cows and a bull were destroyed. The indictment was found in the Court of Oyer and Terminer on the 27th of January, 1893, and sent to…
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