Meadows v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the 'City Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. Ed. B. Almon. The appellant in this ease, George Meadows, was tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment George MeadoAvs did unlaAvfully, or Avantonlv, kill, disable, disfigure, destroy, or injure, á mule, the personal • property of David Walker, of the value of eighty dollars.”
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Appeal from the 'City Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. Ed. B. Almon. The appellant in this ease, George Meadows, was tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment George MeadoAvs did unlaAvfully, or Avantonlv, kill, disable, disfigure, destroy, or injure, á mule, the personal • property of David Walker, of the value of eighty dollars.” “And the. grand jury of said county further charge that George Meadows did unlawfully, or wantonly, kill, disable, disfigure, destroy or injure, two mules personal…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, C. J.
The indictment charges that Meadows, the defendant, unlawfully or wantonly killed, disabled, disfigured, destroyed or injured two mules the property of David Walker, etc. The evidence showed that each of the mules was shot, and that one died from its *72wounds and the other was so injured by its wounds as to lessen its value to the extent of twenty-five dollars. In a conversation between Walker and Meadows the latter in general terms denied his guilt and protested his innocence, saying that he was not guilty, that he had not shot, the mules and he did not know who had shot them. Tie, however,…
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