97-23-43 - Profession; practicing without license. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-23-43. Profession; practicing without license.
 

If any person shall practice as an attorney and counsellor-at-law, or shall practice as a physician or surgeon, or shall practice as a dentist, or shall practice as a pharmacist, without having first been examined and obtained a license as required by law, he shall, on conviction, of the first offense, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or more than two hundred ($200.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months or more than twelve months or both; and such person, upon conviction of the second offense against this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred ($200.00) dollars or more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year or more than two years; and such person, upon conviction of any succeeding offense, shall be punished in the discretion of the court; provided, however, that such punishment shall in no case exceed the payment of a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisonment for five years. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's § 1848, ch. 26, art. 3(4); 1857, ch. 9, art. 3; 1871, § 2246; 1880, § 2398; 1892, § 1258; 1906, § 1334; Hemingway's 1917, § 1068; 1930, § 1099; 1942, § 2332; Laws,  1932, ch. 270.