State v. Collins

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

The appellant was tried and convicted in the Court of General Sessions for Orangeburg County upon an indict ment which charged him in the first count with grand larceny, to wit, the taking and carrying away of certain timber, the property of Mrs. Evans and her son; and in the second count with malicious injury to the same property.

From the sentence imposed, the defendant appeals upon several exceptions, all of which may be considered under these heads:

May one be convicted of larceny of trees unless the evidence shows beyond a…