Cooper v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Laiurence Circuit Court. Hon. R. H. Powell, Circuit Judge.. No offense to remove property mortgaged under Act 1877. See Acts 1877, p. 81. Court erred in excluding testimony of mother of defendant. An infant cannot be held guilty, criminally, for the-violation or breach of a civil contract.' 1 Story on Gont., Secs. 66 and 79, and notes on pp. 109-10 — 11. Parsons ont Gont., 268-269. (See preceding case.)
1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.
There were two counts in the indictment in this case, which is similar in some of its features to the-case of Isaac Z. Cooper v. State, ante.
The first count charged in substance, that George M. Cooper, on the first day of June, A. D., 1881, in the county of Lawrence, etc., “feloniously did sell, barter or otherwise dispose of a certain mule of the value of fifty dollars, on-which said mule a lien then and their existed by virtue of a certain deed of trust executed by the said George M. Cooper on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1881, in favor of G. Kaufman, as trustee for the benefit of E.…
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