State v. Kinney
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Page .District Court. ' The defendant was indicted for willfully obstructing a public highway, and upon a trial, on a plea of not guilty, he was convicted. He appeals. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Upon the trial, the prosecution introduced evidence tending to prove that the defendant had'built a fence across the old road leading through his farmland had thereby obstructed and prevented travel upon it, and that before the obstruction it was a public highway, and had been traveled as such for fifteen years, and rested.
The defendant then offered to read in evidence to the jury the papers, and the record of the proceedings before the Auditor and Board of Supervisors, in an application for a change in, or vacation of the old road at the point in controversy. The prosecuting attorney…
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