19-1907. Intoxicating liquors; penalty.
19-1907
19-1907. Intoxicating liquors; penalty.
No sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison shall under any pretense
give, sell or deliver to any person committed to prison for any cause
whatever any spirituous, vinous or fermented or other intoxicating liquors,
unless a physician shall certify in writing that the health of such
prisoner requires it, in which case he may be allowed the quantity
prescribed, and no more; and any sheriff, jailer or keeper of any county
jail who shall violate the provisions of this section, or who shall
willingly or negligently suffer any prisoner to have any liquor prohibited
in this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 53, § 7; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 19-1907.