The People v. Hamilton

This cause is here on writ of error, the assignments of error being sufficient to give this court jurisdiction.

Plaintiff in error, J. Albert Hamilton, was tried by a jury, convicted and sentenced in the circuit court of St. Clair county upon an indictment charging that he and Samuel Lemon, “well knowing that a communicable disease, to-wit, tuberculosis, then and there existed among their domestic animals, to-wit, among their cattle, and then and there well knowing that said cattle were then and there infected with said communicable disease, to-wit, tuberculosis, did then and there unlawfully,…