State v. Patterson
Court of Appeals of Kansas
Appeal from Butler District Court. Hon. A. M. Jackson, Judge. This was a criminal appeal from a justice of the peace. The case was tried upon an amended complaint, which thus charged the offense : “That at and within the counties of Chase, Marion and Butler, and in the.-State of Kansas, on the twenty-sixth day of July, 1896, the said defendant, C. 0, Patterson, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully overdrive and kill two animals, to wit, two geldings, the…
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Appeal from Butler District Court. Hon. A. M. Jackson, Judge. This was a criminal appeal from a justice of the peace. The case was tried upon an amended complaint, which thus charged the offense : “That at and within the counties of Chase, Marion and Butler, and in the.-State of Kansas, on the twenty-sixth day of July, 1896, the said defendant, C. 0, Patterson, then and there being, did then and there unlawfully overdrive and kill two animals, to wit, two geldings, the property of one William Sullivan, contrary to the form of the- statute in such case made and provided and against the peace…
1Opinion of the CourtMilton, J.
This was a prosecution brought under section 2420 of the General Statutes of 1889, which reads as follows :
“Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed, and whoever, having charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or…
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