Tyler v. State

The accused was convicted of violating § 217 of the Penal Code, in wilfully entering the cultivated land of McClelland, the prosecutor, after having been forbidden by him to do so. It appears that McClelland owned some vacant city lots. Tyler requested permission to sow the lot in oats. According to Mc-Clelland, he gave Tyler permission to sow the lots in oats, with the understanding that if the lots were “sold or traded” he would have to immediately surrender possession. Nothing was said about .the payment of rent, but it is inferable, from what McClelland testifies, that no rent was to be…