United States v. Garretson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Alabama
At Law. On demurrer to criminal information. The opinion covers points made on original hearing and rehearing.
1Opinion of the CourtToulmin, J.
The first, second, and third counts in the information charge the defendant with unlawfully cutting, and procuring to be cut, timber on lands of the United States, which, in pursuance of law, have been reserved for pre-emption, homestead, and cash entries; and the fourth and fifth counts charge him with wantonly destroying, and procuring to be wantonly destroyed, timber on the same lands of the United States, with the same averment that they were lands which, in pursuance of law, had been reserved for pre-emption, homestead, and cash entries, and that the cutting and wanton destruction of the…
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