Lowry v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of a violation of that portion of section 566 of the Penal Code which reads as follows : “If any person . . shall break a pound and release an animal which has been legally impounded or estrayed, without having first paid all damages that may have been incurred, he shall be punished as for a misdemeanor,” etc. The evidence, briefly stated, is as follows: Four of the defendant’s cows had gotten out of her pasture, which was enclosed by a barbed-wire fence, and were committing depredations on an oat field of the prosecutor, who thereupon impounded them and…