Jacobs v. State

Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging that he “did unlawfully sell and offer for sale certain nursery stock called apple trees, which were •then and there infected with a disease called crown gall, and he, the said T. L. Jacobs, then and there well knowing that said apple trees aforesaid were so infected with s-aid disease called crown gall * *

It is first insisted, for the reversal of the judgment, that the testimony did not show knowledge that the trees sold were infected with crown gall. In response to this insistence it may be first said that the instructions to the jury…