Opinion

Powell v. State

  • 16 Ala. App. 63
  • 75 So. 269
  • 1917 Ala. App. LEXIS 125
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Apr 17, 1917
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 91.6%

The opinion

BROWN, P. J.

There is nothing in the statutes of this state that requires persons owning or having the possession of cattle infected with or exposed to ticks to dip such cattle in “a standard arsenical solution” after notice. Curlee v. State, ante, p. 62, 75 South. 268 .

While the statute (Code 1907, § 758), confers upon the state live stock sanitary board power to enact “such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for governing the

movement, transportation,

or

disposition

of live stock that may be

quarantined

* * * on account of being affected with, or exposed to,” contagious or communicable diseases, or, infested with the carriers of such diseases, and the statute (Code 1907, § 7083, as amended by Act approved April 22,1911 [Acts 1911, p. 613]) denounces the violation of such rules as a misdemeanor, the courts will not take judicial notice of such rules and regulations, and an indictment for the violation of this clause of the statute, to charge an offense, must allege the existence of such a rule or regulation, and that the act charged against the defendant is in violation of such rule. Curlee v. State, supra.

The indictment in this case will not support the judgment of conviction. Emmonds v. State, 87 Ala. 12 , 6 South. 54 ; Butler v. State, 130 Ala. 127 , 30 South. 338 .

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