Curry v. State

The object of the statute embodied in section 729 of the Penal Code was to project the landlord in the possession and title of crops raised upon his land and with tools and stock and supplies furnished by him, until the advances necessary in making the crop and the landlord’s portion thereof had been paid for. This purpose would be defeated if only a court in the county in which the actual sale or disposition of any portion of the crop took place had jurisdiction to try violators of this statute. A conversion of a portion of the crop, the custody of which is entrusted by the landlord to the…