Story v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted upon a charge that on or about June 14, 1948, in Lubbock County, Texas, he unlawfully exploded “an injurious substance, to-wit, dynamite, with a malicious intent wrongfully to injure the property of Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, Coaches, Inc.”, and his punishment was assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows there was a strike in progress by a certain class of employees of the Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma Coaches, Incorporated, in Lubbock, Texas. On the night of June 14, 1948, dynamite was exploded in one of the rooms of…