(1) If any person shall willfully do or cause to be done any act whatever, whereby any building, construction, or work of any railroad corporation in this state, or any engine, machine, structure, or any matter or thing appertaining to the corporation shall be stopped, obstructed, injured, impaired, weakened, or destroyed, the persons so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit and pay to the corporation so injured, etc., treble the amount of damages sustained by means of such an offense.
(2) All penalties imposed by this section may be sued for by the prosecuting attorney and in the name of the people of the State of Arkansas in any court of this state having competent jurisdiction.