Jones v. State

Citations

• 3 Tex. Ct. App. 228

Syllabus

<p>Malicious MmoHiEi1. —In a trial of a charge for willfully and wantonly killing certain hogs, the proof was that the hogs, when killed, were in defendant’s field and crop, hut that the fence was not hog-proof. Held, not error to charge the jury that “ the defendant cannot justify killing the hogs for trespassing on his crops unless the crop was properly protected against trespass of stock.”</p>