State v. Sparks

The appellees were indicted by the grand jury of the court below, at its September term, 1877, for malicious trespass.

*299Omitting merely formal matter, the indictment charged,, that “Edward Sparks and Enoch Abbott, late of said county, on the 14th day of May, A. D. 1877, at said county and State, did then and there unlawfully, maliciously and mischievously injure, and cause to be injured, a certain house, situate in said county, the property of one John Urick, by then and there unlawfully, maliciously and mischievously tearing off the roof of said house, to the damage of the said John Urick of…