State v. Muzzy
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information for maliciously killing another’s heifer. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1913, Lamoille County, Fish, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty; and judgment and sentence thereon. The respondent excepted. At the close of all the evidence the court denied respondent’s motion for a directed verdict, to which, he excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This was an information charging the respondent with feloniously, wilfully and maliciously hilling a heifer, the property of one Dewey. The information was brought under P. S. 5815. On trial by a jury a verdict of guilty was returned, judgment was rendered and sentence was imposed.
At the close of the evidence the respondent ashed the court to direct a verdict of acquittal on the ground that in order to make out the crime charged in the information evidence of malice towards the owner of the animal killed must be shown and that there was no such evidence in the case; and upon the ground that…
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