St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pope Circuit Court; A. B. Priddy, Judge; 1. This prosecution is under Acts 1911, 263. -Penal statutes, * * * strictly construed — nothing will be taken as intended, not clearly expressed. 79 Ark. 517; 107 Id. '450; 6 Id. 131; 43 Id. 415;. 87 Id. 411; 64 Id. 271. A failure to properly block all the frogs, constitutes only one offense..
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Appeal from Pope Circuit Court; A. B. Priddy, Judge; 1. This prosecution is under Acts 1911, 263. -Penal statutes, * * * strictly construed — nothing will be taken as intended, not clearly expressed. 79 Ark. 517; 107 Id. '450; 6 Id. 131; 43 Id. 415;. 87 Id. 411; 64 Id. 271. A failure to properly block all the frogs, constitutes only one offense.. All omissions are only one continuing offense, and a conviction in the first case is a bar to further convictions. 107 Ark. 450. See, also, 6 Id. 131; 43 Id. 415; 87 Id. 411; 68 Id. 34; 79 Id. 313; 64 Id. 271; 13 Am. & Ene. Law (2 ed.) 63; 86 Penn.…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
On the 10th day of August, 1915, the prosecuting attorney filed an information before a justice of the peace in Pope County, Arkansas, charging that the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, on the 2d day of August, 1915, did unlawfully fail, neglect and refuse to place and maintain blocks of sufficient size to prevent employees from getting their feet caught in the fifth frog east of the icing station in the yards at Russellville, Ark., as required by section 1, Act 261, of the General Acts of 1911.
On the 11th day of August, 1915, the prosecuting attorney filed another…
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