97-27-15 - Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-27-15. Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink.
 

Any butcher or other person who shall knowingly sell the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased, or any baker, brewer, distiller, or other person, who shall knowingly sell unwholesome bread or drink, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than five years nor less than one year. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(14); 1857, ch. 64, art. 216; 1871, § 2703; 1880, § 2939; 1892, § 1262; 1906, § 1337; Hemingway's 1917, § 1071; 1930, § 1100; 1942, § 2336.