Promotion, use of animals, or attendance with animal at animal fighting contest
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Davis v. State (2009)
Most recently applied in T.J. v. State (July 2010)
As added by P.L.193-1987, SEC.12
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 9. A person who knowingly or intentionally:
(1) promotes or stages an animal fighting contest;
(2) uses an animal in a fighting contest; or
(3) attends an animal fighting contest having an animal in the person's possession;
commits a Level 6 felony.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.