59.1-114 - Unlawful cutting down, possessing or converting branded timber. - Virginia Statutes

§ 59.1-114. Unlawful cutting down, possessing or converting branded timber.

Any person who shall cut down a tree or shall knowingly have in hispossession a log or other timber that has been so branded, without thewritten consent of its owner, and claiming it as his own, or who shallconvert it to his own use or offer to sell same, shall be guilty of a felonyand punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one normore than two years for each offense, unless the defendant in such case showa bona fide adverse claim or color of title to the timber or logs in questionobtained before such branding.

(Code 1950, § 59-211; 1968, c. 439.)