United States v. Buford

Blaokburn, J.:

The appellants were convicted on an indictment charging them with fencing in the public lands contrary to the statute of the United States. A motion was made for a new trial, the motion overruled, and the defendants appeal. The statute of the United States is as follows: “That all inclosures of any public lands of any territory of the United States heretofore or hereafter made by any person, to any of which land included within *174the inclosure the person making or controlling such inclosure had no right or color of title, made or acquired in good faith,’ or an asserted right…