Owens v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Erath. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Moores, County Judge. This conviction was had upon the first count of an indictment which charged the appellant with wilfully wounding a horse with intent to injure the owner. The penalty imposed was a fine of ten dollars.
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Appeal from the County Court of Erath. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Moores, County Judge. This conviction was had upon the first count of an indictment which charged the appellant with wilfully wounding a horse with intent to injure the owner. The penalty imposed was a fine of ten dollars. J. C. Snider testified, for the State, that on the evening of December 25, 1887, the defendant came into his (witness’s) yard leading amare that belonged to Thurman Walker—the witness’s said house and yard being on the place of the defendant’s father. Defendant got a stick about an inch and a half in…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction for malicious mischief. The indictment contained two counts— one for wilfully wounding the animal with intent to injure the owner, and one for wilfully and wantonly and unmercifully disfiguring and cruelly abusing the animal.
A plea in abatement of the indictment was made by defendant upon the ground that three of the grand jurors who found and presented the bill were disqualified and incompetent to act as grand jurors—one being a duly elected, qualified and acting-justice of the peace, and the two others being duly appointed, qualified…
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