97-33-15 - Gambling; hotel, tavern and boarding-house keepers to inform on gamblers. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-33-15. Gambling; hotel, tavern and boarding-house keepers to inform on gamblers.
 

If any guest or other person shall play at any game, bank, or table contrary to law, in a tavern, hotel, or boarding-house, or any outhouse, or under any booth, arbor, or other place upon the premises in possession of any tavern, hotel, or boarding-house keeper, and the keeper of the tavern, hotel, or boarding-house shall not forthwith give information of the offense, together with the names of the offenders, to some justice of the peace of his county, and prosecute the same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 3(18); 1857, ch. 64, art. 137; 1871, § 2601; 1880, § 2847; 1892, § 1126; 1906, § 1207; Hemingway's 1917, § 937; 1930, § 964; 1942, § 2194.