Cain v. State

Appellants, Cain, Pilgrim and Hankins, were convicted in the Circuit Court of Hinds County, First District, of malicious mischief. The pertinent statute, Mississippi Code Annotated section 2281 (1964 Supp.), provides:

Every person who shall maliciously or mischievously destroy, disfigure, or injure, or cause to be destroyed, disfigured, or injured, any property of another, either real or personal, shall be guilty of malicious mischief and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum two-fold the value of the property destroyed or of the damage done, or be imprisoned not exceeding-twelve…