State v. Johnson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Stukes.

The three first-named defendants were indicted along with Ruth Williams in Chester County for violation of Section 1266 of the Code as amended in 1938 and appearing in the supplement for that year whereby it is made a misdemeanor to, among other things, willfully desecrate any grave or destroy any plants, shrubbery, etc, of any graveyard; and from conviction on trial they appealed to this Court upon exceptions which raise the questions argued by them and hereinafter discussed.

As indicated above, Ruth Williams was indicted…