ART. 27.] . OBSTRUCTING RAILROADS. 533

shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for not less than two nor more than ten years.

Railroads—Obstructing.

P. G. L , (1860,) art 30, sec. 159. 1839, ch. 10, sec. 1.

230. 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
creak 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.

Ibid, sec 160. 1839, ch. 10, secs. 2-3.

231. If the death of any person shall be occasioned by the
overthrow or obstruction of any railroad car, vehicle or carriage,
produced by the placing of anything or obstruction on any rail-
road, or by breaking or injuring any railroad, or any bridge at-
tached thereto, in violation of the preceding section, then the per-
son so placing the thing or obstructing, or breaking or injuring,
shall be deemed guilty of murder.

Rape.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 161. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

232. Every person convicted of the crime of rape, or as being

accessory thereto before the fact, shall, at the discretion of the
court, suffer death, or undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for not less than eighteen months nor more than twenty-one years;
and penetration shall be evidence of rape, without proof of emis-
sion.

State v. Sutton, 4 Gill, 498. Stevens v. State, 66 Md. 202.

Ibid. sec. 162. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

233. If any person shall carnally know and abuse any woman
child under the age of ten years, every such carnal knowledge shall
be deemed felony, and the offender, being convicted thereof, shall,
at the discretion of the court, suffer death, or undergo a confine