People v. Goodin

HAYNES, C.

The information charged that the defendant, on May 17, 1901, did willfully, maliciously, and feloniously injure a public highway (naming and describing it), by digging up, displacing, and removing the earth from the roadbed thereof. He was tried and found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for the period of four months; and he appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

This information is laid under section 588 of the Penal Code, which provides as follows:—

“Every person who maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks, or otherwise…