Keith v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The defendant and the prosecutor were coterminous proprietors of land. Defendant was convicted in the lower court of trespass after warning, and appeals to this court. The offense charged was that proscribed by the first clause of Section 5554, Code 1923; specifically, that he wrongfully entered on the prosecutor’s premises after having been warned, within six months preceding, not to do so. The disputed area was an eight or ten acre pasture, under fence, upon which the prosecutor, at the time, was keeping his cow, a yearling, and a mule.

It was proven for the State that the…