State v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “One of the essential facts necessary to constitute a violation of § 304.010 is that the offense must occur upon a highway. For aught the information charges, the act could have been done in the defendant’s private meadow, drag strip, or testing ground. It could have taken place on water in a hydroplane, in a plane in the air above his house, or in a tunnel underground. There is nothing whatsoever which applies it to a public highway. ****** Where the act is criminal only when done at a particular place, such place becomes a matter of essential description.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Prock