Cook v. State

CARR, Presiding Judge.

The accused was indicted and convicted of the offense of grand larceny, more specifically that he stole timber from the lands of the State of Alabama.

The prosecution in the main anchored its evidence on these circumstances:

The foresters discovered that several pine timber trees had been cut on the State’s lands and the logs from the trees had been removed.

The appellant delivered some pine logs to the sawmill of Berry Lumber Company. A cut from a stump in the forest and one from a log that appellant sold to the sawmill were brought into court. An expert witness made a…