Case ID: tex-l-r_3/html/0314-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "White, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MARTIN SHUBERT v. THE STATE.
    Appeal from Hays county.
    
      Construction — Willful.—The word “willful” when used in a penal statute means more than it does in common parlance. It means with “evil intent” or legal malice. In this case defendant had built a dam across a stream, and the water of the stream, being obstructed by the dam, backed up and rendered a crossing on a public road inconvenient and dangerous. Held, such an act does not justify a conviction for “willfully obstructing a public road.” Reversed and remanded.
   Opinion by

White, P. J.