State v. Hughes

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Blease.

The defendants, John Hughes and A. V. Simmons, were indicted at the June, 1927, term of the Court of General Sessions for Charleston, on the charge that—

Each “did knowingly and unlawfully cause the highway or public road known as the ‘Old Wando Road,’ which runs west from the Meeting Street Road to be unlawfully obstructed, to wit: by causing to be dug trenches and erecting fences across said road at a point on the east and west sides of the tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, where. said Railroad tracks cross said highway or…