CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1247

Poison—Attempting to.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 454. 1912, sec. 409. 1904, sec. 361. 1888, sec. 229. 1840, ch. 222.

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

The following decisions relate to secs. 456-457 of art. 27, 1924 Edition of the Code.

Failure of druggist to label box of strychnine tablets as required does not give right
of action on account of injury caused by taking same unless absence of labels was
proximate cause of injury. Drug Stores, Inc., v. Somerville, 161 Md. 662.

This section referred to in construing sec. 456. Drug Stores, Inc., v. Somerville, 161
Md. 662.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 455. 1912, sec. 409A. 1917, ch. 8.

534. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who knowingly and wil-
fully poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts or contaminates the waters
of any well, spring, brook, lake, pond, stream, river, reservoir or other
source of water supply, or any tributary thereof, used or usable for drink-
ing or domestic purposes, by means of disease germs or bacteria or the
insertion of any other poison or poisonous matter therein, or attempts so
to do, or conspires or connives thereat, and every person, his aiders and
abettors, who, by like means, knowingly and wilfully poisons, defiles or
in any way corrupts or contaminates any drink, food or food products or
supply, or attempts so to do, or conspires or connives thereat, shall be
guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary for not more than twenty years, in the discretion
of the Court.

Railroads—Obstructing.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 458. 1912, sec. 412. 1904, sec. 364. 1888, sec. 230. 1839, ch. 10, sec. 1.

535. 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 rail-
road 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 peni-
tentiary for not less than two years nor more than ten years.

Indictment under this section upheld; error in spelling; failure to use a capital "T"
in "the" preceding name of railroad. State v. Warfield, 139 Md. 76.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 459. 1912, sec. 413. 1904, sec. 365. 1888, sec. 231. 1839, ch. 10,

secs. 2, 3.

536. If the death of any person shall be occasioned by the overthrow
or obstruction of any railroad car, vehicle or carriage, produced by the plac-
ing of anything or obstruction on any railroad, or by breaking or injuring
any railroad, or any bridge attached thereto, in violation of the preceding
section, then the person so placing the thing or obstructing, or breaking or
injuring, shall be deemed guilty of murder.

¹ See art. 43, secs. 263-271 for law as to poisons.