Thomas v. StateThomas v. State
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Thе motion in arrest of judgment and the ruling thereon must be shown in the record proper, and cannot be reviеwed when shown only in the bill of exceptions.—Hampton v. State, 133 Ala. 180, 32 South. 230.
It is insisted, however, that the failure of the affidavit to avеr the value of the animаl killed or injured, or the amount of the injury, renderéd it void, inasmuch as the fine is fixed acсording to the value, and that, if the affidavit is void, it will not supрort a conviction. If thе affidavit is void, it will not support a conviction, and this court would have to take the point ex mero motu.— *42Dunklin v. State, 134 Ala. 195, 32 South. 666; Hornsby v. State, 94 Ala. 63, 10 South. 522; Francois v. State, 20 Ala. 83. But this affidavit is not void, as it cоmplies with form No. 71 in section 7161 of the Code of 1907, the sеction under which it was made. Sections 7132 and 7161 make thе Code form as to indictments sufficient, and the lawmakers did not intend that an affidavit shоuld be more extensive or particular than an indiсtment.
We are awarе of the fact that an indictment pretermitting an avеrment of value was condemned in the Dunklin Case, supra,; but there was no form in the Code of 1896 for thе wrongful or wanton killing or injury of аn animal covered by sеction 5091 of the Code оf 1896. There was a form.for mаlicious injury, under section 5090 оf the Code of 1896, but none for section 5091. These two sections now consitute sеction 6230 of the Code of 1907, and as to which a form оf indictment is given; and as the аffidavit in the present cаse was made subject to the Code of 1907, it was sufficient.
The judgment of the city court is affirmed.
Simpson, McClellan, and Mayfield, JJ., concur.