Case Name: JONES v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1913-01-29
Citations: 153 S.W. 622
Docket Number: 
Parties: JONES v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 153
Pages: 622–622

Head Matter:
JONES v. STATE.
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 29, 1913.)
Highways {§ 164*) — Obstruction—Evidence —Sufficiency.
A conviction of obstructing a public road cannot be sustained, where it appears that tbe obstruction was placed, not in a public road, as created by the commissioners’ court, but on a passageway adjoining tbe road, owned by ae-cused and not shown to have been dedicated to public use.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Highways, Cent. Dig. §§ 447-455; Dec. Dig. § 164. ]
Appeal from Morris County Court; C. M. Henderson, Judge.
Jack Jones was convicted of obstructing a public road, and be appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for tbe State.
For other cases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key-No. Series & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
HARPER, J.
Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of obstructing a public road. _
As tbe place where tbe obstruction is-sbown to have been placed is conclusively shown by the evidence not to have been in tbe public road as created by tbe commissioners' court, but on a passageway adjoining tbe road, owned by appellant, and it not being shown that tbe passageway bad been dedicated to public use, the evidence will not sustain a conviction.
Reversed and remanded.