Coleman v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction under subdivision (1) of Code 1940, T. 14, § 84, which in pertinent part reads as follows:

*307“Any person who * * * wilfully or maliciously causes to be placed thereon [a highway] any substance or thing dangerous to any person or animal traveling thereon, or which might injure or puncture the tires of any vehicle * * *

“Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Coleman and others set up and lit a gasoline soaked burlap covered wooden cross in the middle of one road at its junction with another. He admitted doing this, claiming that the clearance on each side…