Brewer v. State

The appellant, by motion in arrest of judgment, which was overruled in the court below, calls in question the sufficiency of the information upon which he was tried and convicted.

The charge in the information is that the accused, “ with force and arms, in the county of Denton, and State aforesaid, did unlawfully break, pull, cut down, and injure a certain fence, then and there the property of Amanda C. Yates, and then and there in the possession of Cicero Guilin, without the consent of her, the said Amanda C. Yates;” against, etc.

The information is based upon the first section of the act of…