State v. Zinn
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. J. 0. Lamson, Judge. (1) The acts charged are offenses against the lands of another, and to secure a conviction, the title to real estate is necessarily involved. To secure a conviction, the State must prove that the lands were the lands of another, and also that the accused had no interest therein.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. J. 0. Lamson, Judge. (1) The acts charged are offenses against the lands of another, and to secure a conviction, the title to real estate is necessarily involved. To secure a conviction, the State must prove that the lands were the lands of another, and also that the accused had no interest therein. (2) As appears in this case there was no controversy as to the acts charged, but the sole contention grew out of the title of a strip of eighteen feet of land lying between the defendant and the prosecuting witness, Hagemeier, upon which the acts were…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
— On the thirty-first day of August, 1893, the defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Lawrence county, on an appeal from a justice of the peace of said county of malicious trespass in cutting down and destroying a hedge fence, the property of another, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $60.
He appealed to the St. Louis Court of Appeals where the judgment of the circuit court was affirmed. State v. Zinn, 61 Mo. App. 476. After the mandate of the court of appeals was received by the clerk of the circuit court of said county, he issued an execution on the judgment against defendant…
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