Smith v. State

The defendant was convicted at the September term, 1912, of the Union Circuit Court for criminal trespass, alleged to have been committed by cutting down and destroying certain cypress trees of the value of .$250, standing and growing on certain land there described, the property.of the American Timber Company, a corporation whose assets were then in the hands of one C. H. Murphy as receiver under the .appointment of the chancery court of that county. The defendant was convicted and his punishment fixed at one month in the penitentiary by the verdict of the jury, and from the judgment of the…