State v. . Miller
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IndictmeNt for neglect of duty as overseer of a public road, tried before Clark, J., and a jury, at November Term, 1887, of Rowan Superior Court. The indictment was quashed, on motion of the defendant, and the State appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMekrimon, J.
The indictment charges, properly, that for a long while a specific part of a public road in the County of Rowan was in a ruinous condition, and greatly out of repair, &c., and it further charges, “ that, ’during all the said time, John Miller was overseer of the said highway, from the corporation line of Salisbury to the township line of Salisbury Township, a distance of some three or four miles, the same constituting his section of said road, and then and there did unlawfully and negligently omit to mend and repair the said highway embracing his section, as aforesaid, contrary to the form of…
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