Conway v. State

Indictment against John Conway for suffering his mare to be run in a horse-race. Conviction and fine in the Circuit Court.

On the trial the defendant offered to introduce in evidence the docket of a justice of the peace, showing that he had been complained of before said justice and fined by him for suffering his horse to be run in a race, and to accompany the introduction of said docket by parol evi*95dence tending to establish the fact that it was a mare and not a horse, for the suffering of which to be run he had been fined before the justice. The Court refused to receive the evidence.

M. L.…