Hanson v. State

The accused was convicted under an indictment charging a violation of section 163 of the Penal Code, which is as follows: “If any person shall take and carry away any paper, document, deed, will, or other writing relating to real or personal estate, with an intention to impair, prevent, or render difficult the establishment of a title to real or personal estate, or mutilate, cancel, burn, or otherwise destroy said paper, document, deed, will, or other writing, with the intention aforesaid, he shall be guilty of simple larceny, and be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for…