Richards v. State

The defendant, Charlie Bichards, was indicted* under section 10853 of the Code for unlawfully and maliciously cutting timber on the land of another for the purpose of marketing the same. He was convicted and sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary.

The prosecutor, W. B. Atkinson, contended that after a chancery court decree was entered establishing a line between Bichards and himself, that the latter came on his inclosed land and cut, removed and marketed between 30,000' and 50,000 feet of timber after he had warned him not to do so. That the defendant threatened to give him a beating…