S. v. . Twiford

There was evidence on the part of the (604) State tending to show that the waterway in question leads off from Currituck Sound and is about four hundred yards wide and six feet ten inches deep in the channel at its mouth, and the following widths at these distances from its mouth: Five hundred yards wide, one mile; four hundred yards wide, a mile and a half, and sixty yards at Shipyard, about two miles above; that the obstructions were placed in the stream at a point three hundred and fifty yards from the mouth of the creek. At this point Jean Guide Creek is about three hundred and fifty…