State v. . Neal
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for cruelty to animals, tried before Norwood, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1896, of Stanley Superior Court. defendant asked the following special instructions: “(1) That chickens are not embraced in the list of animals authorized to be impounded under our Statute in stock-law territory; and, therefore, if the jury believed that the defendant had notified the prosecutor to keep his chickens from trespassing on defendant’s crop, that defendant had made reasonable…
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INDICTMENT for cruelty to animals, tried before Norwood, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1896, of Stanley Superior Court. defendant asked the following special instructions: “(1) That chickens are not embraced in the list of animals authorized to be impounded under our Statute in stock-law territory; and, therefore, if the jury believed that the defendant had notified the prosecutor to keep his chickens from trespassing on defendant’s crop, that defendant had made reasonable efforts to prevent the injury to his crop without killing the chickens or otherwise injuring them, but that prosecutor…
1Opinion of the Court
ClaRK, J.:
This is an indictment for cruelty to animals, to-wit: Sundry Stanly county chickens, “dame, villatic fowl,” as Milton styles them in stately phrase. The prosecutor and defendant lived very near to each other and their chickens were exceedingly sociable, visiting each other constantly. But after the defendants had sown their peas they had no peace, for the prosecutor’s chickens became lively factors in disturbing both. The younger defendant, Oscar, as impetuous as his great namesake, the son of Ossian, pursued one of the prosecutor’s chickens clear across rhe lot of another neighbor,…
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