People v. Valdés

Defendant, appellant, was convicted of malicious .mischief under section 514 of the Penal Code, which reads as follows:

“Every person who maliciously bills, maims, or wounds an animal, tbe property of another, or who maliciously, and cruelly beats, tortures or injures any animal, whether belonging to himself or another, is guilty of misdemeanor.”

The testimony, in so far as it tends to show the existence or nomexistence of malice, the only question involved herein; is in substance as follows:

Rogelio Péeez, who made the complaint, says: “That while witness was in the yard of, his house looking…