97-13-7 - Ballot boxes; unauthorized disposal of box; giving key. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-13-7. Ballot boxes; unauthorized disposal of box; giving key.
 

Any manager of a general or special election who, before the votes are counted, shall dispose of or deposit the ballot-box in a manner not authorized by law, or shall, at any time after the election has begun and before the ballots are counted, give the key of the ballot-box with which he is intrusted to any other, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or both. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(7); 1857, ch. 64, art. 76; 1871, § 2540; 1880, § 2775; 1892, § 1047; 1906, § 1125; Hemingway's 1917, § 851; 1930, § 876; 1942, § 2102.