Deaderick v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the offense of malicious mischief, committed in cutting and removing timber from the lands of the Stony Mountain Land Company, in Cocke county, Tenn., under section 4652, subsec. 7, .of the Code (Shannon’s Code, section 6496), declaring it to be a misdemeanor “to trespass on the lands of another by cutting down or in any other manner destroying valuable timber thereon exceeding fifty cents in value with a view to convert the same to his own use, unless the offender be traveling or moving along any road and by accident or otherwise require the same for…