Case ID: ga-app_17/html/0116-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

6378.
    Morrow v. The State.
    Decided September 17, 1915.
    Indictment for misdemeanor; from city court of Madison— ' Judge Anderson. January 23, 1915.
    
      Morrow & Morrow, for plaintiff in error.
    . A. G. Foster/ solicitor, E. B. Lambert, contra.
   Broyles, J.

1. The indictment for trespass, in which the defendant is charged with “wilfully cutting down and felling the timber and wood upon the land of W. B. Saye in Adsboro district, G. M., without the consent of the owner,” was subject to a timely special demurrer, because of indefiniteness of description of the land, though .previous statements in the indictment located the land in the county of the prosecution. W. B. Saye might have owned several different tracts of land in that district.

2. The evidence did not authorize the conviction of the accused,, and a new trial should have been granted.

.3. In view of our ruling as above given we deem it unnecessary to pass upon the other assignments of error. Judgment reversed.