438 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Poison—Attempting to.

1904; art. 27, sec. 361. 1888, art. 27, sec. 229. 1860, art. 30, sec. 158. 1840, ch. 222.

409. Every person, his aiders, advisers or abettors who shall be
convicted of the crime of attempting to poison any person shall be sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 362. 1902, ch. 586, sec. 1.

410. It shall be unlawful for any person, to retail any of the follow-
ing poisons: arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white
precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium,
hydrocyanic acid, strychnine and all other poisonous vegetables, alka-
loids and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its
preparations, aconite, belladonna, colchicum. conium nux vomica, her-
bane, savine, ergot, cotton-root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis and their
pharmaceutical preparations, cotton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate,
sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid and oxalic acid, without
distinctly labeling the box, vessel or paper in which the said poison is
contained with the name of the article the word "Poison" and the name
and place of business of the seller.

Ibid. sec. 363. 1902, ch. 586, sec. 2.

411. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist or other
persons to sell any of the poisons in section 410 enumerated without
causing any entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the
date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name of the
poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to
be required, and the name of the dispenser, such book to be always open
for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for at least
five years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dis-
pensing of poisons in not unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescrip-
tion of practitioners of medicine. Any violation of the provisions of
sections 410 and 411 shall make the offender liable to a fine of not less
than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars.

Railroads—Obstructing.

Ibid. sec. 364. 1888, art. 27. sec. 230. 1860, art. 30, sec. 159.
1839, ch. 10, sec. 1.

412. If any person shall place anything, or cause anything to be
placed on any railroad in this State, calculated to obstruct, overthrow
or direct from the track of such railroad any car, vehicle or carriage,
travelling or passing on such railroad, or shall break or injure in any
manner any railroad in this State, with the view or intent to obstruct or
overthrow any car, vehicle or carriage, such person so offending shall be
deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced
to the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than ten years.