Campbell v. State

The appeal here is from a judgment of conviction for the offense of defacing, removing or destroying "one monument tombstone, the property of C.C. Sharit." Code 1940, Title 14, Sec. 113.

Previous to this trial, the defendant had theretofore been tried and convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction, under the same statute, on a general accusation of defacing removing or destroying four tombstones, without specifying them. The acts upon which both prosecutions were predicated were committed at the same time and place, viz. February 20, 1943, at Morris Cemetery.

Before entering upon trial and…