State v. Shadley

This was an information against the appellees, who were the defendants, for cutting a tree on the lands of another, without license. The charge is, that the defendants, on March 10, 1858, at Warren county, did then and there unlawfully cut down, on lands belonging to the heirs of Edward I. Hamilton, in said county, one green beech tree, of the value of one dollar, and of the property of said heirs, without having a license so to do, from said heirs, or any other competent authority, contrary, &c. There was a motion to quash the information sustained, and the State excepted.

The information is…