State v. Graham

The only question necessary to notice springs out of the action of the Circuit Court in excluding the evidence offered by the defendant. The defendant was indicted under the statute (Wagn. Stat. 462, § 55) for willfully and maliciously killing a hog, the property of one Huskey. After the evidence for the State was submitted, the prisoner introduced Samuel Herrington, his father-in-law, and offered to prove by him that on the morning of the day on which the prisoner shot the hog, he (Herrington) requested defendant to go into the woods where he had some wild hogs running and kill thCm; that…