Farr v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with obstructing a public road.

The facts show that the property belonged to the father of appellant, and that he, at his father’s request, aided by his father’s presence at the time and place, placed a wire fence across the road said to be obstructed. This road had been used by the public for some years and had been worked by an overseer and hands. The record discloses and in fact the report of the jury of review and the minutes of the commissioners court show that about 1898 there was a road laid out, the field notes of which are given, surveys…