The following is a true copy of an indictment found by the grand jury of Lawrence county, Ky., at its October term of the Criminal Court (leaving off the name of the defendant and date)
Lawrence Criminal Court.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
against Indictment.
_____, Defendant.
The grand jury of Lawrence county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse ____ of the offence of malicious mischief, committed as follows :
The said ____ , on the 10th day of September, A. D., 18__, in the county and circuit aforesaid, did unlawfully, willfully, and maliciously kill and destroy one pig, the personal property of George Pigg, without the consent of said Pigg, the said pig being of value to the aforesaid George Pigg. The pig thus killed weighed about twenty-five pounds, and was a mate to some other pigs that were owned by said George Pigg, which left George Pigg a pig less than he (said Pigg) had of pigs, and thus ruthlessly tore said pig from the society of George Pigg's other pigs, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
A. S. Auxier, Commonwealth's Attorney.
A true bill: O. D. Botner, Foreman.
Filed Nov. . A.D., 18__. G. F. Johnson, Clerk.
[The Washington Law Reporter, 1889, p. 94]
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