People ex rel. Knatt v. Davy

—The relator has been arrested and imprisoned by the defendant, by virtue of bench warrants issued upon two indictments found in the court of oyer and terminer of Monroe county. One of them charges the relator with maliciously exposing, placing, and scattering poison in the place where the cattle of Mary J. Burnett were kept, with the intent that the animals should take the poison, and thereby be killed. And the other charges that, from the effects of poisonous drug maliciously administered by the relator to it, an animal of Mary J. Burnett died. No value of the property was alleged. The…