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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-280 (2026)

Shooting or throwing at trains or passengers

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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. (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. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)

 

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1999–2010 · leading case: Aycock v. Padgett, 516 S.E.2d 907 (N.C. Ct. App. 1999).
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Aycock v. Padgett, 516 S.E.2d 907 (N.C. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 2× “, N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 14-280 (1993) (throwing rocks at railroad cars); 14-309.”
State v. Sexton, 694 S.E.2d 521 (N.C. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 4× “N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-280 .40A(a) (2009). "[T]he trial court is required to determine `whether the offender's conviction places the offender' in one of the five categories and to `make a finding of fact of that determination,' specifying the category into which the offender falls.”
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