FOSTER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, Southern Railway Company, was convicted of violating the penal provisions of section 18 of the rivers and harbors act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C.A. § 502) on an information which charged willful refusal and failure to obey an order of the Secretary of War to alter a railroad bridge, owned and controlled by it, over the Tombigbee river at Jackson, Ala. A fine of $1,000 was imposed. Error is assigned to the overruling of a demurrer...
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