If any person shall willfully cast, throw or shoot any stone, rock, bullet, shot, pellet or other missile at, against, or into any railroad car, locomotive or train, or any person thereon, while such car or locomotive shall be in progress from one station to another, or while such car, locomotive or train shall be stopped for any purpose, the person so offending shall be guilty of a Class I felony.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-280
Shooting or throwing at trains or passengers
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 134 N.C. App. 164 - Aycock v. Padgett (1999)
Most recently applied in 204 N.C. App. 211 - State v. Sexton (May 2010)
1876-7, c. 4; Code, s. 1100; 1887, c. 19; Rev., s. 3763; 1911, c. 179; C.S., s. 4419; 1985, c. 577, s. 3; 1993, c. 539, s. 1222; 1994, Ex
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