Cowart v. State

The defendant was convicted in the criminal court of Eulton County on an accusation drawn under the Code, § 26-3002, which reads as follows: “Any person who shall wilfully enter, go upon, or pass over any field, orchard, garden, or other inclosed or cultivated land of another, after being personally forbidden so to do by the owner or person entitled to the possession for the time being, or authorized agent thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” In the petition for certiorari it is alleged that the State failed to prove that the act of the accused in going upon the land of the prosecutor…