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23 Ind. 185

State v. Craig

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1864

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1864-11-15

<p>Crimes—Deeinition oe.—The statute of May 81,1852, requiring that “crimes and misdemeanors shall be defined,” could not trammel the future action of the legislature.</p> <p>Statutes..—.When two statutes are inconsistent, the last will be held to be the law.</p> <p>Obstruction or Highways.—The act of June 14, 1852, providing punishment for obstruction of highways, is sufficiently definite.</p>

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Decided 1864-11-15

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Frazer, J.

¶1Information for obstructing a public highway by building a fence across it. The information was quashed, and upon that action of the court below error is assigned.

¶2The statute approved June 14, 1852, enacts that “any person who shall in any manner obstruct any public highway . . . shall be fined,” etc. This statute seems to us definite enough to be easily understood, and the information makes a case within its provisions. The objections taken to the information—-first, that the statute does not define the offense; second, that the information does not charge it—were not well taken. At any rate, the statute of May 31, 1852, requiring that “crimes and misdemeanors shall be defined,” could not trammel the future action of the legislature. When two statutes are inconsistent, the last expression of the legislative will must be held to be the law. Wall v. The State, at this term.

¶3The judgment is reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded, with directions to the court below to proceed in the cause.

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