State v. . Williams

Tbe defendant was tried, on appeal from a justice of tbe peace, for violation of tbe Revisal,, see. 3366, wbicb makes it a misdemeanor in certain counties “If any tenant or cropper shall procure advances from bis landlord to enable bim to make a crop on tbe land rented by him, and then willfully abandon tbe same without good cause and before paying for such advances” Tbe statute further provides tbe same punishment for tbe landlord if be shall willfully fail to make tbe advances promised.

Tbe court quashed tbe proceeding on tbe-ground that tbe statute contravened tbe Constitution, Art. I, sec.…