Any person who, having been a notary or a notary public for the state at large, willfully performs or assumes the authority to perform a notarial act after his commission expires or any person who without a notary's commission assumes the authority and performs a notarial act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year.
(Acts 1949, No. 586, p. 913, § 1.)