State v. Davenport

Tbe defendant Davenport and seventeen others were indicted and convicted, in tbe court below, of forcible trespass in tearing down three shacks, which bad been erected in a lumber or logging camp, and which were each about 10 feet long and 7 feet wide, made of poles and covered with tar paper, and had been built upon the land two or three days before the alleged trespass. The defendants have appealed to this Court and now allege that the learned judge who presided at the trial committed thirty-four errors in his several rulings during the hearing of the cause. The case had its origin in a…