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61-3-35 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Digging Ginseng or Other Medical Roots; Penalty |
It shall be unlawful for any person to dig ginseng or other medical roots, or prospect for the same, on the lands of another, in the counties of Pocahontas, Gre… |
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61-3-36 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Anchoring or Beaching Shanty Boats on Lands of Another; Penalty |
If any person, being the owner or occupier of any shanty boat, or boat of like kind, who anchors, ties or beaches such boat upon the real estate of another for … |
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61-3-37 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
False Statement as to Financial Condition of Person, Firm or Corporation; Penalty |
Any person who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly, or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing, with i… |
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61-3-38 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Publication of False Advertisements; Penalty |
Any person, firm, corporation, or association, or their agents or employees, who, with intent to sell, or in any wise dispose of, merchandise, securities, servi… |
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61-3-39 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Giving Worthless Check; Penalties |
Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall make, draw, issue, utter or deliver to another any check, draft or order for the payment of money upon any bank, o… |
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61-3-40 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Fraudulently Obtaining Food or Lodging; Penalty |
Every person who shall, at any hotel, inn, eating, lodging or boarding house, or restaurant, receive or cause to be furnished any food or accommodation, with in… |
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61-3-41 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Willful Injury to Railroad Property; Shooting or Throwing Missiles Into Passenger Car; Misconduct of Passenger; Employees Conservators of the Peace; Special Railroad Policemen; Penalties |
Any person who shall willfully and unlawfully injure, impair, weaken, destroy or misplace any building, bridge, rail, track, sidetrack, switch, rail bonds, spur… |
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61-3-42 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Intoxication of Person in Charge of Locomotive Engine or Car; Penalties |
If any person, while in charge of a locomotive engine, whether the same be driven by steam, electricity or other motive power, running upon the railroad or trac… |
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61-3-43 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Jumping on or off Car or Train in Motion; Driving Vehicle Upon Track or Bridge Except at Crossings; Penalty |
If any person, not a passenger or employee, shall be found trespassing upon any railroad or traction car or train of any railroad in this State, by jumping on o… |
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61-3-44 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Procuring Gas, Water or Electricity, by Device, With Intent to Defraud; Penalty |
Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud, procures, makes, or causes to be made, any pipe, tube, wire, or other conductor of gas, water or electric en… |
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61-3-45 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Tampering With Pipes, Tubes, Wires or Electrical Conductors; Penalty |
Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud, connects, or causes to be connected, any pipe, tube, wire, electrical conductor or other instrument with any… |
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61-3-46 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Use of Slugs, False Coins, etc., in Coin Box Telephone; Penalty |
Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated, or attempt to operate any coin box telephone designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of Amer… |
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61-3-47 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Dams or Obstructions in Watercourses; Penalty |
No person shall fall any timber and permit the same to remain in any navigable or floatable stream of this State when to do so shall obstruct the passage of boa… |
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61-3-48 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Damaging or Carrying Away, Without Permission, Trees, Flowers, etc., Growing Within One Hundred Yards of Public Roads; Limitation of Section; Penalty |
It shall be unlawful to break, cut, take or carry away, or in any manner to damage any of the trees, shrubbery or flowers, and including everything under the ti… |
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61-3-49 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Property |
Purchase of Copper Wire, etc., by Junk Dealers and Others; Penalty |
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, except licensed junk dealers in the manner hereinafter provided, to barter, purchase, exchange, buy or… |
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61-4-1 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Forgery of Public Record, Certificate, Return or Attestation of Court or Officer; Penalty |
If any person forge a public record, or a certificate, return or attestation of a clerk of a court, notary public, judge, justice, or any public officer, in rel… |
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61-4-2 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Forgery of Official Seals; Keeping or Concealing Instrument for Forging Same; Penalty |
If any person forge, or keep or conceal any instrument for the purpose of forging, the seal of a court, or of any public office or body politic or corporate in … |
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61-4-3 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Counterfeiting; Penalty |
If any person forge any coin, current by law or usage in this State, or any note or bill of a banking institution, or fraudulently make any base coin, or a note… |
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61-4-4 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Making Plates for Forgery; Possession of Same; Penalty |
If any person engrave, stamp, or cast, or otherwise make or mend any plate, block, press or other thing adapted and designed for the forging and false making of… |
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61-4-5 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Forging or Uttering Other Writings; Penalty |
If any person forge any writing, other than such as is mentioned in the first and third sections of this article, to the prejudice of another’s right, or utter … |
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61-4-6 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Possession of Counterfeit With Intent to Utter; Penalty |
If any person have in his possession forged bank notes, or pieces of forged or base coin, such as are mentioned in the third section of this article, knowing th… |
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61-4-7 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Unauthorized Currency; Penalty |
If any person shall, without authority of law, issue any note or other security purporting that money or other thing of value is payable by or on behalf of such… |
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61-4-8 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency |
Passing or Receiving Unauthorized Currency Knowingly; Penalty |
If any person not punishable under the provisions of the preceding section shall knowingly pass or receive in payment any such note or security, he shall be gui… |
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61-5-1 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Perjury and Subornation of Perjury Defined |
To willfully testify falsely, under an oath or affirmation lawfully administered, in a trial of the witness or any other person for a felony, concerning a mater… |
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61-5-2 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
False Swearing Defined |
To willfully swear falsely, under oath or affirmation lawfully administered, in a trial of the witness or any other person for a felony, concerning a matter or … |
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61-5-3 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Penalties for Perjury, Subornation of Perjury, and False Swearing |
A person convicted of perjury or subornation of perjury shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years, and a person convicted … |
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61-5-4 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Bribery or Attempted Bribery; Penalty |
If any person shall bribe, by directly or indirectly giving to or bestowing upon, or shall attempt to bribe by directly or indirectly giving to or bestowing upo… |
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61-5-5 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Demanding or Receiving Bribes; Penalty |
Any executive, legislative, judicial or ministerial officer, or member of the legislature, who shall demand, receive or accept any gift, gratuity, money, testim… |
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61-5-6 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Receiving Bribe by Officer in Delay of Service of Process; Penalty |
If any officer authorized to serve legal process receive any money or other thing of value for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining to his office… |
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61-5-7 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Bribery of Commissioner of Court, Auditor, Justice of the Peace, Arbitrator, Umpire, or Juror; Penalty |
Any person who gives or offers, directly or through any other person or persons, or promises, directly or indirectly, to give any money or other thing of value … |
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61-5-8 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Aiding Prisoner to Escape; Penalty |
Where a person is lawfully detained as a prisoner in any jail, prison, or custody, if any person shall convey anything into the jail or prison, or place of cust… |
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61-5-9 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Permitting Escape; Refusal of Custody of Prisoner; Penalties |
If a jailer or other officer voluntarily suffer a prisoner convicted or charged with felony to escape from his custody, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, a… |
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61-5-10 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Jail Breaking by Convicted Prisoner; Penalty |
Any person confined in jail on conviction of a criminal offense, who escapes therefrom by force, violence, or by any subterfuge, device or deception, shall, if … |
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61-5-11 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Jail Breaking by Unconvicted Prisoner; Penalty |
If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail, and not sentenced on conviction of a criminal offense, escape therefrom by force or violence, or by any subterfuge, d… |
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61-5-12 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Escapes From, and Other Offenses Relating to, State Benevolent, Penal and Correctional Institutions; Penalties |
Except where otherwise provided, whoever abducts any person who is an inmate of any state benevolent, penal or correctional institution shall be guilty of a fel… |
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61-5-13 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Refusal of Officer to Make Arrest; Penalty |
If any officer willfully and corruptly refuse to execute any lawful process, requiring him to apprehend or confine a person convicted of or charged with an offe… |
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61-5-14 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Refusal of Person to Aid Officer; Penalty |
If any person shall, on being required by any sheriff or other officer, refuse or neglect to assist him in the execution of his office in a criminal case, or in… |
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61-5-15 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Refusal of Person to Execute Order of Arrest by a Justice; Penalty |
If any person, being required by a justice, on view of a breach of the peace or other offense, to bring before him the offender, shall refuse or neglect to obey… |
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61-5-16 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Refusal of Officer to Execute Act or Process of Legislature or Order of Governor; Penalty |
Any officer of this State whose duty it is to execute or enforce any act of the legislature, or any legal process or proceeding arising thereunder, or any lawfu… |
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61-5-17 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Obstructing Officer; Penalty |
Any person who by threats, menaces, acts or otherwise, shall forcibly or illegally hinder, obstruct, or oppose, or attempt to obstruct or oppose, or shall couns… |
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61-5-18 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Officer Not Liable for Act Done Under Statute or Executive Order Afterward Declared Unconstitutional |
No officer in the lawful exercise or discharge of his official duty under any act of the legislature, or any order or proclamation of the governor of this State… |
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61-5-19 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Compounding Offenses and Misprision; Penalties |
If any person, knowing of the commission of an offense, take any money, or reward, or an engagement therefor, upon an agreement or undertaking, expressed or imp… |
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61-5-20 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Exacting Excessive Fees; Penalty |
If any officer, for performing an official duty for which a fee or compensation is allowed or provided by law, knowingly demand and receive a greater fee or com… |
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61-5-21 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Issuing Fraudulent Fee Bills; Penalty |
If any person authorized by law to charge fees for services performed by him, and to issue fee bills therefor, fraudulently issue a fee bill for a service not p… |
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61-5-22 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Alteration, Concealment or Destruction of Public Record by Officer; Penalty |
If any clerk of a court, or other public officer, fraudulently make a false entry, or erase, alter or destroy any record in his keeping and belonging to his off… |
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61-5-23 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Larceny, Concealment or Destruction of Public Record by Person Other Than an Officer; Penalty |
If any person, other than an officer in lawful charge thereof, steal, fraudulently secrete or destroy, a public record or any part thereof, he shall be guilty o… |
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61-5-24 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Corrupt Summoning of Jurors to Find Biased Verdict; Penalty |
A sheriff or other officer who, corruptly, or through favor or ill will, shall summon a juror, with intent that such juror shall find a verdict for or against a… |
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61-5-25 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Procuring the Summoning of Biased Juror by Party Other Than Officer; Penalty |
If any person shall procure or attempt to procure a juror to be summoned, with intent that such juror shall find a verdict for or against either party to an act… |
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61-5-26 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Contempt of Court; What Constitutes Contempt; Jury Trial; Presence of Defendant |
The courts and the judges thereof may issue attachments for contempt and punish them summarily only in the following cases: (a) Misbehavior in the presence of t… |
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61-5-27 |
Ch. 61 — CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENT |
Crimes Against Public Justice |
Intimidation of Judicial Officers, Jurors and Witnesses; Penalty |
If any person by threats, force, or otherwise, intimidate or impede, or attempt to intimidate or impede, any judge, justice of the peace, juror, witness, arbitr… |
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