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§ 97-13-3. Bribery; hiring canvasser to use unlawful means.

If any person shall offer or give a reward to another for the purpose of inducing him, by any unlawful means not amounting to bribery, to procure any person to vote at any election for or against any person, the person so giving or offering such reward shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(3); 1857, ch. 64, art. 38; 1871, § 2515; 1880, § 2731; 1892, § 985; 1906, § 1061; Hemingway's 1917, § 789; 1930, § 805; 1942, § 2031.

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§ 97-13-3. Bribery; hiring canvasser to use unlawful means.

If any person shall offer or give a reward to another for the purpose of inducing him, by any unlawful means not amounting to bribery, to procure any person to vote at any election for or against any person, the person so giving or offering such reward shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(3); 1857, ch. 64, art. 38; 1871, § 2515; 1880, § 2731; 1892, § 985; 1906, § 1061; Hemingway's 1917, § 789; 1930, § 805; 1942, § 2031.

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§ 97-13-3. Bribery; hiring canvasser to use unlawful means.

If any person shall offer or give a reward to another for the purpose of inducing him, by any unlawful means not amounting to bribery, to procure any person to vote at any election for or against any person, the person so giving or offering such reward shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(3); 1857, ch. 64, art. 38; 1871, § 2515; 1880, § 2731; 1892, § 985; 1906, § 1061; Hemingway's 1917, § 789; 1930, § 805; 1942, § 2031.