Case ID: nc_154/html/0649-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. CEDAR WORKS.
    (Filed 8 March, 1911.)
    Navigable Streams — Obstruction—Evidence—Burden of Proof.
    To maintain an indictment for obstructing a canal, it must be shown that the canal was a navigable stream.
    Appeal by defendant from J. S. Adams, J., at Fall Term, 1910, of TYRRELL.
    
      Attorney-General and George L. Jones for the State.
    
    
      Ay code & Winston and W. M. Bond for defendant.
    
   Per Curiam.

Tbe defendant was indicted for obstructing Basnight’s canal. There is no evidence to show that tbe canal was a .public navigable stream, and bis Honor erred in submitting tbe case to tbe jury.

This renders it unnecessary to consider any of tbe other exceptions in tbe record.

Error.