State v. Zinn

This was a criminal information, under section 1359, Revised Statutes, charging the defendant with unlawfully, wantonly, wilfully, and without right, breaking and cutting down a portion of a certain hedge belonging to, and enclosing, lands not his own, etc. The prosecution was commenced before a justice, of the peace; on an appeal to the circuit court and a trial there, before a jury, the defendant was found guilty, and adjudged to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

All the evidence in the case is compatible with the conclusion that the…