97-3-13 - False confinement; sending sane person to psychiatric hospital or institution. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-3-13. False confinement; sending sane person to psychiatric hospital or institution.
 

Every person or officer who maliciously sends to or confines in a psychiatric hospital or institution or other place, any sane person as a person with mental illness, knowing the person to be sane, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not more than one (1) year, or in the county jail not more than six (6) months. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1892, § 1316; 1906, § 1390; Hemingway's 1917, § 1133; 1930, § 1164; 1942, § 2407; Laws, 2008, ch. 442, § 32, eff from and after July 1, 2008.