37-12-101. Stealing railroad equipment.
If any person shall willfully and wrongfully take or remove the waste or packing or brass or brasses from any journal or boxes, of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, or truck, used or operated, or capable of being used or operated upon any railroad, whether the same be operated by steam or electricity, the person so offending shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, or both.