Lawson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Pike county. Tried before Hon. Wm. H. Parks. The prosecution against’ the appellants was commenced by a complaint made before the judge of the Criminal Court of Pike county, charging them with having committed a trespass after warning upon the property of one Dennis Ramsey.
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Pike county. Tried before Hon. Wm. H. Parks. The prosecution against’ the appellants was commenced by a complaint made before the judge of the Criminal Court of Pike county, charging them with having committed a trespass after warning upon the property of one Dennis Ramsey. Issue having been joined on the plea of not guilty, the State introduced as a witness Dennis Ramsey, who testified that he took possession of the land in section 19, township 11, range 20, six years before the trial (October 1893) and built houses and cleared and fenced a field containing…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
This is a prosecution for trespass after warning under section 3874 of the Code. The evidence is free from conflict to the effect that the prosecutor had actual possession of the land upon which the trespass' is alleged to have been committed at the time of the warning to defendant, and from thence to, and at, the time when the defendant. entered upon it, that he warned the defendant not to enter upon the land and that within six months after said warning and within twelve months before the commencement of the prosecution, and in Pike county, the defendant did enter upon said land. This…
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