Mitchell v. State

This is a joint appeal by the two defendants named. They were jointly tried and convicted under an indictment preferred by the grand jury of Morgan county at the November term, 1917, of the circuit court. This indictment contained two counts, as follows:

The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Earley Mitchell and Coleman Prince did wantonly or maliciously place an impediment, to wit, a cross-tie, upon the track of the Louisville Nashville Railroad Company, a corporation, in such manner as to render liable any engine, car, or other vehicle to diverge or…