Coghill v. State

Búskirk, J.

The appellant was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the state prison, for the term oftwo years, for obstructing a railroad track. The court overruled motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, and the appellant excepted. The evidence is not in the record, and, consequently, we shall presume that the verdict was sustained by the evidence. The motion in arrest of judgment raises the question of whether the indictment was sufficient.

The appellant presents for our consideration and decision but one question, and that is, whether the section of the *112statute upon which…