Illinois Central Railroad v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Eeversing.

The railroad company was indicted by the grand jury of Larne county for an alleged violation of section 772, of the Kentucky Statutes providing that ‘ ‘ every company operating a railroad in this State shall provide a convenient and suitable waiting room.”

The indictment charged that the railroad company, “within twelve months before the finding of this indictment, did unlawfully and wilfully fail, neglect and refuse to provide a suitable waiting room at its depot in Hodgenville, an incorporated town of the sixth class; that said waiting room in…