Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — A FINE POINT. [ARTICLE]

A FINE POINT.

In the case of the S*ate vs, John Jenkins, charged with the larceny of six turkeys, the property of one John Stadsfler, on trial before Judge Hord and a jury, yesterday tha defendant's attorney, Mr, John Feiris, made a mptien to quash, on the grouud of tha failure of the indictment to set forth the fact that the turkeys stolen came under the head of wild animals (fera naturae,) or whether they were domesticated (fera demesticae) arguing that the rights of property did not vest in wild animals in their native state. In a burst jf eloquence he addressed his honor aa follows: “Why! your honor knows that 'the woods are full or turkeys to roam through their dim aisles and unbrageoue dells in their native state, to possession of which no man has righ. above another.’* Here the Judge in terposed: “Mr. Sheriff adjourn court and bung me my gun.” The motion was overruled and the case went to th - jury, whe brought in a verdict of acquittal—Shelbyville Democrat.

Vice Chancellor Simrall, of Louis ville, Kentucky took eccaiion to se verely rebuke an aged couple who appeared before him as applicants for_ a divorce on a trumped u.< charge of abandonment, the wife. the plaintiff being seventy years old and the husband ninety years old. Judge Simrall dismissed the petition, and •aid he bolieved that if the records of the Courts which alone had jurisdiction in such cases were searched they would disclose such a state of facts as to the number es divorce suits and the rapidity of their increase in the last few years as would fill the great mass of right thinning people in the State with amazement end disgust. The laws of Kentucky recongaize and provide for thirteen distinct grounds for divorce, and Judge Simrall thinks this twelve too many.