State v. Yorczyk

By an information dated January 19, 1970, the defendant was charged in the Circuit Court in twenty-eight counts with the crime of cruelty to animals ,in violation of § 53-247 of the General Statutes. That conglomerate statute was subsequently amended by Public Acts 1971, No. 99, but, as it was in effect at the time of the alleged offense in December, 1969, it is copied in the footnote 1 infra and the words subsequently deleted from that statute by the 1971 act have been placed in parentheses. The specific offenses with which the defendant was charged were defined and narrowed by a bill of…