Gibbs v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Gounty Court of Knox, Tried below before Hon. G. Hood, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for unlawfully making and permitting a fence to remain standing around the land of another; penalty, a fine of $1.25. The indictment is set out in the opinion. The defendant attacked its sufficiency in his motion in arrest of judgment, which was overruled.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON", Judge.
Appellant was convicted for making, and permitting to remain standing, a fence, on land not his own, without the written permissiofi of the owner, and appeals.
The indictment is drawn under article 509 of the Penal Code, and the charging part is in the following language: That “W. H. Gibbs did then and there unlawfully and knowingly make, and permit to remain standing, a fence on and around the land of J. A. Sherwood, to wit, the east one-half of section No. 20, certificate No. 145, block 2, Dallas & Wichita Railroad Company, situated in Knox County, Texas, without the…
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