Ellis v. State

Appellant went to trial in the DeKalb County Court upon the original complaint charging him with the offense denounced by Title 14, Section 115 (1), Code of Alabama 1940. Specifically he was charged with willfully or wantonly destroying 46 head of cattle, the personal property of H.W. Thompson, of the value of $18,500.00. The above section charges a misdemeanor and provides that the punishment must be proportioned to the offense and shall be a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or a sentence to imprisonment in the County Jail or to hard labor for the County for not more than 12 months.…