Moore v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This prosecution arose and conviction was held under Art. 1379, Vernon’s P. C., as amended by Acts of the 46th Legislature in 1939. The fact that the legislature amended that statute in 1943, while this prosecution was pending, did not affect the right of the state to maintain this proceeding under the Act of 1939. (Art. 16, Vernon’s P. C.)

The indictment in this case charges that appellant did “unlawfully and knowingly without the consent of the owner thereof cut down, destroy, and carry away merchantable timber upon land not his own, to-wit, upon land owned by Tod Adams.”

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