State v. Brown

This was a prosecution against a supervisor for neglecting to repair a highway. The indictment charges that the defendant, Daniel Brown, was the supervisor in a certain road district, specifying it; that while he was such supervisor, a part of a certain road and public highway lying in his district, and described in the indictment, was, from the first of June, 1843, to the first of April, 1844, by reason of trees, wood, and timber, lying along and across the same, nearly impassable for footmen, teams, &c. ;■ and that said supervisor, well knowing the impassable condition of the said highway,…