State v. Woodhouse

The defendant was charged with violation of Bern. Comp. Stat., § 2653.

“Every person who shall maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder or any other explosive substance or material, destroy or damage any building, car, vessel, railroad track or structure, shall be punished as follows:

“(1) If thereby the life or safety of a human being is endangered, by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than twenty years.

“(2) In every other case by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than five years.”

That portion of the information containing a statement of the offense of…