Court Opinion

ID: 4905433
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:56:00.078975+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:06.056689
License: Public Domain

White, P. J.
This prosecution was by indictment for malicious mischief, and was based upon art. 680 of the Penal Code. As set forth in the indictment, it is charged that defendant “ unlawfully, wilfully, and wantonly did then and there wound and kill a certain mule, the same being then and there a dumb animal,” etc. On the trial, the two State’s witnesses testified that “ the mule [which was shot] is still living and doing work every day.” This evidence did not support the indictment in its most material allega*431tian, but directly contradicted and disproved it. The prosecution failed to make out the case preferred against defendant, and the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.