Barlow v. State

The appellant was found guilty of the charge of maliciously and mischievously injuring the property of John Hemphill,-by plowing up and destroying the garden of the latter, in which were sown and planted lettuce, onions, and other vegetables.

The uncontradieted testimony shows that the appellant is eighteen years old, and that he lives with, and works for, his father, John Barlow, who owns the lot on which the vegetables alleged to have been destroyed were growing. The lot had been rented to Hemphill some three years before, and had been used by him from year to year, in part as a vegetable…