Clifton v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Tuscaloosa Circuit Court. Tried before lion. S. IT. Sprott. William Clifton, the defendant in the court below, appellant in this court, was indicted, tried and convicted under section 4239 of the Code of 1876. The averments of the indictment, the verdict of the jury, and the judgment rendered thereon are sufficiently 'set out in the opinion. ' The evidence introduced on behalf of the State tended to show-that on a designated trestle over a creek on the line of…
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Appeal from Tuscaloosa Circuit Court. Tried before lion. S. IT. Sprott. William Clifton, the defendant in the court below, appellant in this court, was indicted, tried and convicted under section 4239 of the Code of 1876. The averments of the indictment, the verdict of the jury, and the judgment rendered thereon are sufficiently 'set out in the opinion. ' The evidence introduced on behalf of the State tended to show-that on a designated trestle over a creek on the line of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, in said county, the “fish bars”1 connecting the rails had been taken from the rails…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
— The defendant (now appellant) was indicted and convicted under the statute (Code of 1876, § 4239) which reads: “ Any person who wantonly or maliciously injures any railroad in this State, which is in use for the transportation of passengers or merchandise, or places any obstruction or impediment thereon, or salts stock thereon, must, on ■conviction, be fined not less than one hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars, and, at the discretion-of the court trying the cause, may also be imprisoned' in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months, of…
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