Adams v. State

A fair statement of the facts shown by this record reveals that the defendant bought the tract of land on which the Neese burying ground was situated about 1925 without knowledge of its existence and without reservation of any kind by deed or plat of it as a burial ground; that when he bought the land the graves could not be seen because of trees and brush which had been cut down and accumulated over the area; that there were more than 2 or 3 graves but all except two were unmarked, that of these one had a monument which had been broken and the monument on the other had been placed there…