19-1907.   Intoxicating liquors; penalty.No sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison shall under any pretensegive, sell or deliver to any person committed to prison for any causewhatever any spirituous, vinous or fermented or other intoxicating liquors,unless a physician shall certify in writing that the health of suchprisoner requires it, in which case he may be allowed the quantityprescribed, and no more; and any sheriff, jailer or keeper of any countyjail who shall violate the provisions of this section, or who shallwillingly or negligently suffer any prisoner to have any liquor prohibitedin this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convictionthereof 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.