State v. Wheeler

The State has appealed from a judgment sustaining a motion to quash an indictment charging that:

J. T. Wheeler, on the 1st day of March, 1911, did in Fentress county, Tennessee, “unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, corruptly, and feloniously cut out and destroy the line marks on the trees establishing and designating the line of the lands of the heirs of Ruth Doss, in said county and State, contrary to the statute, and against the peace and dignity of the State.”

The indictment is based on Shannon’s Code, sec. 6503, which reads:

“Whoever shall unlawfully, knowingly, willfully, and corruptly…