Bates v. State

Eay,. J.

This was an indictment for trespass to lands. The indictment alleged, that the defendant did, on, &c., unlawfully take and remove from the land belonging to Deborah Bacon, in the county of Marion, forty-five cubic yards of gravel, of the value of six dollars.

A motion to quash was overruled.

The statute provides, that any person, who shall cut down or remove from any land belonging to another, without license so to do from competent authority, “ any tree, stone, timber, or other valuable article, shall be deemed guilty of a trespass, and upon conviction shall be fined in five times the…