State v. Hackfath

The defendant was indicted, arraigned, tried, and found guilty of the mistreatment of a domestic animal, under the provisions of section 1609, Revised Statutes, and sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars.

The law provides that, “if any person shall * * * cruelly beat, mutilate, cruelly kill, or overdrive, any domestic animal * * * he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.”

The indictment charged that the defendant “unlawfully, with a club, four feet in length and two inches-thick, maliciously and cruelly beat a certain horse, the property of him, the said William Hackfath, from the-effects…