Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — Law Is Too Indefinite. [ARTICLE]

Law Is Too Indefinite.

The Supreme court on Tuesday reversed the lower court in an appealed case from White county, entitled Cook vs State. Cook was arrested and fined for hauling over a gravel road during a time prohibited by law —when the roads are soft. The court’s decision practically kills all prosecutions under this law. It held: 1. Acts 1889, paste 378, which makes it a misdemeanor to haul a load of more than 2,000 pounds on a narrow-tired wagon over a turnpike or gravel road, when it is in a condition to be cut np and injured by heavy hauling, is too indefinite concerning the width ol tire referred to as a narrow tire for this court to say that an affidavit charging such hauling on a wagon having tires two inches wide charged a criminal offense. 2. This court cannot say as a matter of law that a tire two inches wide is certainly either a narrow tire or a broad tire. A complete new stock of dress goods, shirt waists, carpets, lace curtains, linens, embroidries, hats and caps, etc., just received. Chicago Bargain Store.