State v. . Malpass

Two criminal actions were instituted against the defendant. It was charged in one bill of indictment that the defendant "did unlawfully and willfully obstruct a public road, or highway, by placing nails, driven in this wood, and placing them in the public road, so as to stick in automobile tires, or by placing nails or tacks in said road, which nails did become fastened or stick in automobiles in large numbers and caused punctures."

In the other bill of indictment it was charged that the defendant "did unlawfully, willfully and wantonly injure the personal property of another, or another's, to…