Commonwealth v. Coupe

The indictment charges the defendant with erecting and maintaining, on May 1, 1878, and on other days between that day and the day of the finding of the indictment, March 3, 1879, a fence within the limits of a highway in Attleborough. At the trial in September 1879, evidence was offered by the government that the corner of the highway, where it intersected another road, was a long curve, and that the defendant had built his fence with a square corner, thereby enclosing a portion of the highway, between the fence and the curved line which was claimed by the government to be the boundary of…