Yates v. State

Plaintiffs in error, Joe Yates and Delmer Franklin, hereinafter called defendants, were convicted for violation of T.C.A. sec. 39-4521 and sentenced to six months in the County Jail, from which they have perfected their appeal.

The said statute provides as follows:

“It shall be a felony for any one knowingly, willfully, and maliciously to cut, or to remove for the purpose of marketing the same, timber from the lands of *120another, without the consent of the owner of the timber. Any one convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section shall he imprisoned in the penitentiary for a period…