Brown v. State

E. A. Brown was tried in the city court of St. Marys, under an accusation charging him with a violation of section 226 of the Penal Code of 1910, which makes it a misdemeanor “for any person, company, firm or corporation to enter or cut or remove *269from any nninclosed lands in this State any timber or tan-bark on such lands, unless such person, firm, company, or corporation shall, before so doing, have on record, in the county where such land lies, a deed of conveyance to the same, prima facie showing title to such lands, or shall have a written contract from some person, company, or…