State v. Buxton

This was a prosecution commenced before a justice of the- peace- for obstructing a highway.

The affidavit charges, “that on or about the 15th day of August, 1868, at .the said county of Jefferson, in the- State-of Indiana, one James B. Buxton did unlawfully obstruct a highway, then and there situate, being the highway running nearly north and south through section nine, town' three, range eight east, from the Scaffold Lick and Kent road to-the Lexington and Paris road, in said county and State, by then and there unlawfully erecting fences across said highway, as affiant is informed and…