Husbands v. State
Husbands v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
An affidavit was made against the appellant and one Joe Peterson before a justice of the peace of Lamar county, charging them with having stolen “one female hog of the value of seven dollars.” The appellant here was convicted in the circuit court of a “trespass less' than larceny,” for which he was fined twenty-five dollars by the circuit judge, and from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
Reversed.
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- Tbespass. Trespass less than larceny. Talcing hog. Statute. Where defendant assisted the owner of a cornfield, to take up and pen a hog belonging to another, which was depredating in said field, and the owner of the field demanded of the owner of the hog fifty cents for taking it up which he refused to pay, and thereupon defendant bought the hog from the party taking it up and offered the hog to its owner for fifty cents. In such case he was not guilty of violating Code 1906, section 1264, which provides, that any person who shall, without the owner’s consent, take and carry away any hog, etc., where the taking and carrying away does not amount to larceny, shall be fined or imprisoned, but that the section shall not apply to any one who takes property believing in good faith that he has a right to it, since in such case there was nothing wrongful in the taking up of the hog but it was taken up in good faith.