An animal of the genus equua and species caballus. In a narrow and strict sense, the term is applied only to the male, and only to males of four years old or thereabouts, younger horses being called “colts.” But even in this sense the term includes both stallions and geldings. In a wider sense, and as generally used In statutes, the word is taken as nomen g oner alls simum, and includes not only horses strictly so called, but also colts, mares and fillies, and mules and asses. See Owens v. State, 38 Tex. 557; Ash worth v. Mounsey, L. R. 9 Exch. 187 ; .Pullen v. State, 11 Tex. App. 91; Allison v. Brookshire, 38 Tex. 201; State v. Ingram, 16 Kan. 19; State v. Dunnavant, 3 Brev. (S. C.) 10, 5 Am. Dec. 530; State v. Gooch, 60 Ark. 218, 23 S. W. 640; Davis v. Collier, 13 Ga. 491. Compare Richardson v. Chicago & A. R. Co.,’ 149 Mo. 311, 50 S. W. 782.
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