Morrison v. State

The accused was tried, in the superior court of Hart county, under an indictment charging him with the offense of a misdemeanor, for that he “unlawfully, wrongfully, and fraudulently, after having made a rent contract for the year 1898 with one R. T. Buffington, on which rent contract he was due said R. T. Buffington twenty-nine and 31/100 dollars, for rent and advances made upon the crops grown upon said rented land, for which he was due the said R. T. Buffing-ton, landlord, on a landlord’s lien, [did] sell and otherwise dispose of a bale of cotton grown on said rented premises before the…