Section 9-11-258
Persons hunting deer at night liable for killing stock.
If any person hunting deer by fire in the nighttime kills any horse, mare, colt or other domestic animal, he is liable to double damages in a civil action instituted by the owner of the property.
(Code 1852, §1114; Code 1867, §1295; Code 1876, §1600; Code 1886, §1378; Code 1896, §420; Code 1907, §4485; Code 1923, §8260; Code 1940, T. 8, §106.)