Uecker v. State

This prosecution was commenced by a complaint before a justice of the peace, against defendant, for malicious mischief. The charge, as stated in the complaint, after the usual formulary, is in these words, viz.: “ Did then arid1 there maim, wound, and maltreat, by shooting with a *235rifle-gun, two head of neat cattle, to wit, a bull of the value of $50, and a heifer of the value of $20, the property of said Leonard Hitzfelder, without the consent of the said Leonard Hitzfelder, and with the malicious intent, upon the part of the said Herman Uecker, to injure the said Leonard Hitzfelder,…