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121 Miss. 37

Smith v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1919

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1919-10-15

Hon. E. S. Hall, Judge. John C. Smith was convicted of .knowingly altering and defacing the brand or mark of an animal and appeals.

Decided 1919-10-15

Smith, C. J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court. The appellant was convicted for a violation of section 1054, Code of 1906 (section 782, Hemingway’s Code); hut the indictment on which he was tried is fatally defective, for the reason that it fails to charge that the mark altered by him was “ intended to designate ownership.” Consequently the demurrer thereto should have been sustained.

¶2Reversed and remanded.

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