State v. Southern Railway Co. in Mississippi

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to an indictment for an alleged offense under section 3, chapter 136, Laws 1912, which provides that:

“Each dining car, railroad, or sleeping car company doing business within the state, shall post two copies of this act in conspicuous places in each passenger coach or sleeping car.”

The alleged violation of the statute as charged is that appellant—

“a corporation, a railroad company doing business within said state, in said county, on the 23d day of September, 1914, unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully, did, then and there, fail and…