State v. Washington
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before James Aldrich, J., Greenwood, October Term, 1906. Indictment against Dennis Washington for obstructing neighborhood road.
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Before James Aldrich, J., Greenwood, October Term, 1906. Indictment against Dennis Washington for obstructing neighborhood road. From sentence on verdict of guilty, defendant appeals on the following exceptions, alleging error: I. “In charging the jury as follows: ‘A neighborhood road is one of those which leads from one public place to another, for instance, to a church or mill or to a public highway, or connects two public highways.’ The errors in 'said charge being as follows: (a) It makes any road to a public highway a neighborhood road, even if it starts from his own house and goes…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gary.
The defendant was convicted, under an indictment in which it was charged “that this defendant did wilfully, unlawfully and maliciously obstruct a certain neighborhood road, said road running from the public highway leading from Hodges, South Carolina, to Smith’s old bridge, north to the public highway leading from Hodges, South Carolina, to^ Mulberry, South Carolina, by plowing up and planting a section of said road, and building, erecting and maintaining a structure over and across the same, and *379that by such obstruction the…
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