State v. Comfort
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the district court for Benton county, McKélvey, J., presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
This is an indictment for cruelty to animals under Laws 1871, ch. 34, § 1. The specification of the offence is that the defendant, with another, “did cruelly, wilfully, and with force and arms, overdrive two horses, * * * by reason of which said overdriving the said two horses were tortured and tormented.”
It is objected that the indictment should go beyond the words of the statute, and more particularly describe what constituted the overdriving. But a charge in an indictment may be made in the words of the statute, without a particular statement of facts and circumstances, when, by using…
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