The Law, just and exact, would now protect this prisoner.

The Law was no matter of haphazard.

The prosecution must show that some specific article of the Law had been violated.
"Now," continued Dan Anderson, casting an eye about him as calmly as could have done any old trial lawyer examining the condition of his jury, "what are the charges made by the Territory?
The prosecution specifies no section or paragraph of the statutes of this Territory holding it unlawful to shoot any dangerous wild beast at large in this community.

But we do not admit that this prisoner shot anything, or shot at anything whatever.

We shall prove that at the time mentioned he was engaged in a simple, harmless, and useful pastime, a pastime laudable of itself, since it tends to make the participant therein a better and more useful citizen.