Shellhouse v. State

The appellants, Shellhouse, Phillips and Lockwood, were prosecuted upon a joint information, in which they were charged with having unlawfully obstructed a public-alley in the city of Indianapolis, which alley, it was charged,, extended east from East street to Liberty street, between Washington and Maryland streets.

It was charged that the obstruction of the alley was occasioned by the erection and maintenance thereon, by the appellants, of a permanent structure, consisting of a high board fence and wall across the alley, at a point two hundred and fifty feet east of East street.

The…