State v. Ward
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was indicted by tbe grand jury, tried in the district court for Wright county before Giddings, J., and a jury, and convicted of the crime of wilfully cutting down standing timber on the land of others. From the judgment of conviction, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBuNN, J.
Defendant was convicted under an indictment charging malicious injury to property, and appealed from the judgment.
The sufficiency of the indictment is challenged, as are certain rulings in the admission of evidence, and the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant the conviction.
1. The indictment was in the language of the statute, G. S. 1913, § 8934, subd. 1. It charged that defendant on or about March 10, 1912, at the town of Maple Lake in Wright county, wilfully and unlawfully cut down two maple trees then standing and growing upon the lands of others, the owners being named and the lands…
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