State v. Pruett

The prosecuting attorney filed in the circuit court the following information against the defendant, to wit:

“Now, at this day, comes W. D. Johnson, prosecuting attorney within and for Pulaski county, in the state aforesaid, and gives the court herein to *157be informed and understand that James Pruett, at the county of Pulaski and state aforesaid, on the first day of June, 1893, did then and there willfully and maliciously and cruelly maim, wound, beat and torture to death eight pigs, of the value of $1 each, and of the aggregate value of $8, the. same being the personal property of one J. P.…