Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. J. D. Templeton, County Judge. It was in proof that the owner of the hogs had been requested, the day before they were killed, to put them up.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
A bill of exceptions was saved at the trial of this case to a special instruction given the jury at the instance of the county attorney, in the following words, viz.: “ The defendant cannot justify killing the hogs for trespassing on his crop unless the" crop was properly protected against trespass of stock.”
A similar case, in this respect, to the one we are considering is that of Branch v. The State, 41 Texas, 622; and inasmuch as the opinion of Eeeves, J., in that case disposes of the above-mentioned bill of exceptions and the legal questions discussed in the very interesting brief of…
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