Crowley v. People

On the 8th day of December, 1949, an information was filed in a justice of the peace court in Arapahoe county, Colorado, in which one James A. Rulla was named defendant. The charge contained in said information was that, defendant, on or about December 6, 1949, did “unlawfully torture, torment, unnecessarily and cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate and kill one dog, the property of Lila Rulla.” December 9, 1949, defendant Rulla was found guilty by said justice of the peace and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for one year and assessed a fine of $225.00 plus costs.

On the day following…