Shaw v. State

1. The indictment upon which the plaintiff in error was tried contained two counts, in one of which he was charged with the offense of murder, and in the other with the offense of “wrecking a railroad-train, whereby death ensued.” This indictment alleged in substance that the accused, conspiring with certain other persons whose names were stated therein, did upon a given day, in a named county, remove from the track of a railroad a certain iron rail, with intent to wreck the train of a certain railroad company; that in consequence of the removal of such rail, a train of the railroad company…