Supreme Court of North Carolina February 5, 1893 (State v. . Porter)

Burwell, J.:

The statute under which the defendant is indicted is very comprehensive in its terms. It forbids

(The Code,

§2482) the willful wounding, injuring, torturing or tormenting, and the needless mutilation or

killing

of any useful beast, fowl or animal, and declares (section 2487) that any person who shall do any act towards the furtherance of an act of cruelty to any animal shall be