Whim v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of “knowingly, willfully, and maliciously cutting and removing for the purpose of marketing timber from the lands of another, without the consent of the owner of the timber so cut and removed,” in violation of the provisions of chapter 106, p. 257, of the Acts of 1897. The jury fixed the punishment of the prisoner at two years confinement in the State prison. He appealed, and has assigned errors. No part of the testimony has been preserved by the bill of exceptions, and the cause is here only upon the technical record, showing, among other things, the…