Peterson v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted under an indictment charging him with a violation of Sec. 1 of Oh. 23, of the Acts of 1899. The defense below was (and it is renewed here) that this statute is unconstitutional, because, as insisted, it is arbitrary and unreasonble class legislation. It is entitled “An Act to prevent stock from' running at large in counties of this State having a population of 59,000 or more, according to -the Federal census of 1890, or according to any subsequent Federal census, and to prevent the necessity of fencing lands in counties that are now affected by this Act,…