Holder v. State

— The plaintiff in error was charged in an information with having fraudulently altered and changed the marks of an animal “not his own, with intent to claim the same and to prevent identification by * * * the true owner.” (Italics supplied.)

This conforms to the definition of the offense denounced in Section 7279 C. G. L. 1927, except that the conjunctive “and,” which we have italicized, does not appear in the statute, but instead the disjunctive “or” is used. This does not render the information duplicitous, as is urged by plaintiff in error.

It has been announced, by authority approved by…