Cox v. State

At the April term, 1832, of the Morgan Circuit Court, Cox was indicted for obstructing the west branch of White river. The indictment contains two counts. The first count charges that Cox, with force and arms, did erect and keep up a certain mill-dam, in and across the bed of said stream, below the Delaware towns;'and that said mill-dam so erected is still kept up, and that it destroys the navigation of the stream. The second count charges that the said Cox, with force and arms, did erect and keep up a certain other mill-dam, of the height of three feet, across the main channel of the stream,…