Nichols v. State

The information charges appellant with obstructing a public highway, and thus describes it: “A certain public highway, located and situated on the half section line running north and south, through the center of section 11, township 33, range 9, Lake county, Indiana.”

~We deem the description sufficient. It is not necessary for the prosecutor to state the facts which constitute the way a public one; the requirements of the law are complied with by the averment that the way obstructed is a public highway. The term “ public highway” has a fixed and well known signification, and no useful purpose…