Palmer v. State

This was a prosecution for malicious trespass, based on an affidavit filed before a justice of the peace, charging that the defendant, on or about the 22d day of March, 1873, at, etc., did maliciously, mischievously, and unlawfully injure a rail fence of the value of fifty cents, the property, of Ann E. Wright, James M. Wright, William C. Wright, Sarah Wright, and Laura S. Wright, by then and there throwing said rails of said fence down and upon the ground, to the damage of said Ann E. Wright, etc., in the sum of fifty cents, contrary to the form of the statute, etc.

The defendant was found…