U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia, 1834

United States v. Jackson

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · Decided November 15, 1834 · Thruston

4 D.C. 483; 26 F. Cas. 555; 4 Cranch 483

Opinion of the Court

The Court (Thruston, J., absent,)

refused to quash the indictment.

Upon the trial, the defendant’s counsel contended that it was necessary to prove that the cow died of that beating.

But the Court refused to give the instruction ; and at the prayer *484of the Attorney of the United States, instructed the jury that the gist of the offence was the public cruelty to the common nuisance, and it was not necessary for the United States to prove that the cow died of the beating.

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