People v. Sitors

OPINION OF THE COURT

George R. Bartlett, III, J.

On or about February 10, 2005, defendant, Mary Dawn Sitors, was charged with 20 counts of violating Agriculture and Markets Law § 353, a misdemeanor. That section, entitled “Overdriving, *929torturing and injuring animals; failure to provide proper sustenance,” provides that:

“A person who overdrives, overloads, tortures or cruelly beats or unjustifiably injures, maims, mutilates or kills any animal, whether wild or tame, and whether belonging to himself or to another, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink, or neglects or…