Butler v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of Roane county for the violation of subsection 8 of section 6496 of Shannon’s Code.

The section reads:

“It is declared to he a misdemeanor: . . . (8) To knowingly, willfully, and wantonly cut down and destroy valuable timber of another, whether the owner be personally present forbidding the same or not. ’ ’

This subsection was amended, so as to read as it now appears, by chapter 36. of the Acts of 1870-71. This act is as follows:

“An act to amend the laws upon the subject of trespass upon property and malicious mischief.

“Section 1. Be it…