Sutton v. State

Joe Sutton was indicted and convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County for unlawfully and knowingly permitting his live stock to run at large, in violation of what is known, popularly, as the ‘ ‘ no-fence law, ’ ’ the same being *698Ch. 182 of the Acts of 1895. He was fined twenty-five dollars, and has appealed in error.

The - indictment is in good form, and the proof is plenary; hut the contention is made, on behalf of the plaintiff .in error, that the statute is unconstitutional, and, consequently, that his motion to quash the indictment, and then his motion in arrest of judgment, should…