Mills v. State

Having been convicted of disposing of a part of the cotton crop grown by Mm as a half-cropper, without the consent of the landlord and before the landlord had received his part of the crop, and had been paid for advances made by Mm to the cropper for making the crop, Ed. Mills excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial, based upon the general grounds and upon seven special grounds.

The first special assignment of error is that the court erred in failing to charge that there was no crime committed unless it was shown that the landlord had failed to get his share of the entire crop…