Johnson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

By indictment in the District Court of Wood County it was charged that the appellant “did unlawfully and willfully displace and interfere with a switch upon the track of a railroad,” etc. The jury assessed against him a punishment of confinement in the penitentiary for a period of seven years.

On a former trial in the District Court of Wood County the appellant, on an indictment in two counts, was convicted with a penalty of confinement in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years assessed against him. Upon that trial each of the counts contained the language above quoted,…