State v. Holcomb

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Jones.

The appellant was convicted before a magistrate in Cherokee County for wilfully, unlawfully and maliciously cutting trees and trespassing upon lands of the prosecutors, the trustees of Griffin Hill Church, in violation of sec. 166, Criminal Code 1893. Besides a plea of not guilty, the defendant specially denied that the title and possession of said land was in- the prosecutors, but claimed that such title and possession was in the wife of the defendant. On appeal therefrom the judgment of the magistrate court was affirmed by the Court…