State v. . Long

(896) The indictment charges, that the defendant erected and maintained a house, for a long space of time, "upon a certain public square, in the town of Rockingham, in said (Richmond) County, known in the plan of said town as Washington square, and upon which the court house of said county is situated; so that the citizens of this State, in, upon and through said square, all that time, could not, nor can now, go, return, pass, and repass, as they ought and were accustomed to do, to the great damage and common nuisance," etc.

Upon his trial in the Superior Court of Richmond County, at Fall…