If any person shall cut or raft any cypress, pine, oak, gum, hickory, pecan, walnut, mulberry, poplar, cottonwood, sassafras, or ash trees or timber upon any lands belonging to any other person or corporation, without permission from the owner thereof, or his agent duly authorized, such person shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than five months, or fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-17-81
Trees; cutting or rafting upon lands of another
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 932 So. 2d 82 - Pollard v. State (2006)
Most recently applied in 932 So. 2d 82 - Pollard v. State (June 2006)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 12, art. 6(7); 1857, ch. 64, art. 231; 1871, § 2685; 1880, § 2956; 1892, § 1305; 1906, § 1379; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1119; 1930, § 1149; 1942, § 2386.
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