Boggs v. State

Prosecution against Boggs for cutting and taking timber from the land of one John Conner without license.

Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury; conviction and fine.

The State took the deposition of said John Conner, then residing at Nashville, Tennessee. The notice was served in Warren county, fourteen days before the deposition was to be taken. It specified that the deposition would be taken before H. W. Haworth, a notary public, at his office in Nashville, Tennessee, or by some other person competent to take it. No commission was issued by the clerk to said Haworth, authorizing him to take the…