STATE v. STOCKTON

No. 1127.

85 Ariz. 153 (1958)

333 P.2d 735

STATE of Arizona, Appellant, v. Ben STOCKTON, Belton Hodges and Sunny St. Johns, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

December 24, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morrison, Atty. Gen., Melvin J. Mirkin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles C. Stidham, County Atty., Douglas Keddie, Deputy County Atty., Phoenix, for appellant.

Evans, Kitchel & Jenckes, Phoenix, for appellees.


PHELPS, Justice.

An information was filed against the defendants charging them with cruelty to animals in violation of A.R.S. § 13-951 in that they "conducted a cockfight, during which fight said gamecocks were subjected to needless suffering." Defendants filed a motion to quash the information upon the ground that it does not state a public offense and in their argument contended that: (1) a gamecock is not an animal within the meaning of the statute, (2) the...

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