State v. Moresi

KENNON, Justice.

An indictment was returned against the defendant in the Parish of Iberia, La., charging him with having “ * * * committed simple criminal damage to property by intentionally killing one registered pointer dog of a value of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars the property of Oliver L. DeGravelle. Contrary, etc. * * * ”

The defendant filed a motion to quash and a demurrer — both setting out the same grounds, namely, that the indictment charging the killing of the dog was fatally defective for the following reasons: (1) That the indictment did not allege that the dog had been placed on…