McClanahan v. State
McClanahan v. State
Opinion of the Court
Our penal statute with regard to the obstruction of roads, streets, and bridges, reads as follows: “ If any person shall wilfully obstruct or injure, or cause to be obstructed or injured, in any manner whatsoever, any public road or highway, or any street or alley in any incorporated town or city, or any public bridge or causeway, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars,”
The offense denounced is the obstruction of any public road or highway, or any street or alley in any incorporated town or city. It is no offense to obstruct a road which is not a public road, nor is it any offense to obstruct a street or alley in an unincorporated town or city.
The information in this case is fatally defective as an information for obstructing a road, because it does not allege that the
This information states no offense against the law, and defendant’s motion to quash the same should have been, sustained.
Because the information is fatally defective, the judgment is reversed and the prosecution is dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.
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- L. B. McClanahan v. State
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- Obstructing Public Road, Etc.—Information—Article 405 of the Penal Code provides as follows: “ If any person shall wilfully obstruct or injure, or cause to be obstructed or injured, in any manner whatsoever, any public road or highway, or any street or alley in any incorporated town or city, or any public bridge or causeway, he sháll be ñned,” etc. Held that the offense denounced by the said article is the obstruction of any public road or highway, or any street or alley in any incorporated town or city, and that it does not embrace the obstruction of any road other than & public road, or street or alley in an unincorporated town or city. The information in this case, alleging the obstruction of a “certain road in the unincorporated town of Glen Rose,” charges no offense against the laws of this State.