Stephens v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Yalobusha County. Hon. W. S. Featherston, Judge. Dave Stephens was indicted under Section 2918, Code of 1880, for that he “ unlawfully did cruelly beat, starve, torture and purposely injure ” a certain hog, the property of one John Railly.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Yalobusha County. Hon. W. S. Featherston, Judge. Dave Stephens was indicted under Section 2918, Code of 1880, for that he “ unlawfully did cruelly beat, starve, torture and purposely injure ” a certain hog, the property of one John Railly. The evidence tended to show that several hogs were trespassing on the crop of the defendant; that he tried to get them out of his field, but failed; and that he thereupon shot and killed four of them, two of which belonged to the defendant and two to Railly. The defendant offered to prove that he had a lawful fence, •and…
1Opinion of the CourtArnold, J.
Section 2918 of the Code, under which appellant was indicted, renders it a criminal offence for any person to cruelly beat, abuse, starve, torture or purposely injure certain animals, whether they belong to himself or another. This statute is for the benefit of animals, as creatures capable of feeling and suffering, and it was intended to protect them from cruelty, without reference to their being property, or to the damages which might thereby be occasioned to their owners.
*331It was error for the court below to refuse to instruct the jury for appellant to the effect that they should find him…
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