Steverson v. Orangeburg County

I cannot distinguish this case from State v. Mellette, 106 S. C., 224; 91 S. E., 4, which in my opinion is controlling in favor of the appellant. In that case the defendant was indicted for obstructing a neighborhood road by removing a bridge which connected the neighborhood road with a public highway, exactly the situation which is presented in the qase at bar except that in the one case the drainage ditch on the side of and parallel with the highway was spanned by a bridge, and in the other a galvanized iron pipe constituted a culvert, which was covered with earth and afforded passage from…