State v. Pitzer

At the September term, 1878, of the court below, the appellee was indicted for malicious trespass.

The indictment contained two counts.

In the first count it was charged, in substance, that the appellee, on the 8th day of June, 1878, at LaPorte county, Indiana, “ did then and there unlawfully, maliciously and mischievously injure and cause to be injured a certain single harness, the property of Mary D. Everhart, by then and there unlawfully, maliciously and mischievously cutting into pieces said harness, to the damage of said Mary D. Everhart of eight dollars.”

In the second count of said…