Hamilton v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

— By proper complaint and information appellant was charged, tried and convicted, and given the lowest penalty, — a fine of $100 and three months’ confinement in jail, for injuring a railroad car.

The offense is prescribed by Article 1259 Penal Code which is as follows: “Any person who shall wilfully injure any railroad, locomotive engine, or tender, or baggage, passenger or freight car of any railroad in this State,'so as to prevent the use of same, shall be punished by fine in any sum not less than one hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the county jail not less than…