Cornelison v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Cooke. Tried below before Hon. J. P. Hall, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for obstructing a public road; penalty, a fine of $25. The facts are substantially stated in appellant’s brief. George Cornelison owned fifty acres of land, and about the 1st of April he fenced the north side of his land.
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Appeal from the County Court of Cooke. Tried below before Hon. J. P. Hall, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for obstructing a public road; penalty, a fine of $25. The facts are substantially stated in appellant’s brief. George Cornelison owned fifty acres of land, and about the 1st of April he fenced the north side of his land. The Valley View and Collinsville road ran through this fifty acres tract of land, and appellant had to make a lane, which left a road thirty feet wide all the way through said fifty acres tract; and on said fifty acres tract Timber Creek ran through, running…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Cooke County on a charge of willfully obstructing a public road, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25, and he appeals.
It appears from the record before us that appellant owned the land on both sides of the road; that the road was a second-class road thirty feet wide, and crossed Timber Creek, which creek has a bridge across it fourteen feet wide and fifty-two feet long, leaving a space of eight feet between the bridge and appellant’s fence, on each side thereof. Appellant fenced this eight feet, setting one post within about…
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