Territory of Montana v. Lannon

The appellant was indicted and convicted for defacing and obliterating a written notice in violation of the following section of the criminal laws of this Territory: “ If any person shall intentionally deface or obliterate, tear or destroy, in whole or in part, any record, copy, or transcript, or extract from or of any law of the United States or of this Territory, or any proclamation, advertisement, or notification, set up at any place in this Territory by authority of any law of the United States or of this Territory, or by order of any court, such person, on conviction, shall be fined not…