Commonwealth v. Turner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
COMPLAINT, alleging that the defendant, on April 7, 1887, at Rockland, “was the person having the charge and custody of a certain animal, to wit, a fox, and did then and there, knowingly and wilfully, permit the said fox to be subjected to unnecessary suffering, by then and there, knowingly and wilfully, turning the said fox loose, to be hunted by divers dogs, in consequence of which turning loose of the said fox, as aforesaid, the said fox was hunted by divers dogs, and…
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COMPLAINT, alleging that the defendant, on April 7, 1887, at Rockland, “was the person having the charge and custody of a certain animal, to wit, a fox, and did then and there, knowingly and wilfully, permit the said fox to be subjected to unnecessary suffering, by then and there, knowingly and wilfully, turning the said fox loose, to be hunted by divers dogs, in consequence of which turning loose of the said fox, as aforesaid, the said fox was hunted by divers dogs, and thereby subjected to unnecessary suffering as aforesaid.” At the trial in the Superior Court, on appeal, before the jury…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 53, provide that “ Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, who cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner, or knowingly andr wilfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering, or cruelty of any kind, shall be punished,” &c. The complaint alleges that the defendant, at a certain time and place, “ was the person having the charge and custody of a…
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