Cox v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for trespass. Before Judge Sweat. Clinch superior court. April term, 1898. Cox was indicted for trespass in cutting a number of cypress and pine trees upon the land of Mrs. Anderson.
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Indictment for trespass. Before Judge Sweat. Clinch superior court. April term, 1898. Cox was indicted for trespass in cutting a number of cypress and pine trees upon the land of Mrs. Anderson. The testimony for the State was*to the effect, that the husband of Mrs. Anderson leased for her the land to Cox for two years ending December 81, 1896, to cut pine-trees only; and that during the month of January, 1897, he cut more than fifty cypress-trees and a number of pine-trees also. Anderson went to him while he was on the land near where the cutting was being done, and objected thereto, telling…
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
The plaintiff in error in the present case complains only that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, and that the judge erred in a certain portion of his. charge which is set out in the official report. The evidence-brought up in the record fully authorized the jury to convict the-accused. The charge complained of was not erroneous, the-question being controlled by the case of Hill v. State, 63 Ga. 578. In his opinion in that casé, Judge Bleckley discusses at length the point made in this record, and distinguishes the-charge given in that case, and we may say the one in this, from…
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