State v. . Holman

The defendants were indicted for maintaining a public nuisance, produced by the creation of a milldam and the ponding of water thereby upon adjacent lands, etc.

There were two counts in the bill, but as the court directed the jury not to consider the second only the first is set out.

"The jurors for the State, upon their oath, present that John B. Holman and Elizabeth Holman, late of Iredell County, on 1 August, 1889, at and in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully, injuriously, (862) willfully, and knowingly maintain and keep a certain dam across Fifth Creek, in said county, upon land of the…