Barber v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of San Saba. Tried below before Hon. M. D. Slator. Appeal from a conviction for unlawfully causing cattle to go into the enclosed lands of another; penalty, a fine of $25. The following statement of the case, which is substantially correct, is taken from the appellant’s brief on file with the record, viz.: . In the spring of 1900 J. M. Kuykendall bought what was known as the Burroughs pasture, in which there was about 10,000 acres of land, in…
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Appeal from the District Court of San Saba. Tried below before Hon. M. D. Slator. Appeal from a conviction for unlawfully causing cattle to go into the enclosed lands of another; penalty, a fine of $25. The following statement of the case, which is substantially correct, is taken from the appellant’s brief on file with the record, viz.: . In the spring of 1900 J. M. Kuykendall bought what was known as the Burroughs pasture, in which there was about 10,000 acres of land, in San Saba County, Texas. At that time three persons were living inside said pasture, all owning, or claiming to own, more…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted for causing cattle "to go within the enclosed lands of another, without the consent of the owner, etc., and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25.
A brief summary of the facts discloses that the alleged owner, Kuykendall, had bought the land in question in the spring of 1900, and, during the summer, had enclosed it, along with quite a lot" of other land; that his purchase was from the Burroughs estate; that he had placed an agent in charge of these pasture lands; that this agent resided in the pasture while Kuykendall resided at the county…
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