97-41-1 - Living creatures not to be cruelly treated. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-41-1. Living creatures not to be cruelly treated.
 

If any person shall override, overdrive, overload, torture, torment, unjustifiably injure, deprive of necessary sustenance, food, or drink; or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate; or cause or procure to be overridden, overdriven, overloaded, tortured, unjustifiably injured, tormented, or deprived of necessary sustenance, food or drink; or to be cruelly beaten or needlessly mutilated or killed, any living creature, every such offender shall, for every offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1880, § 804; 1892, § 1014; 1906, § 1091; Hemingway's 1917, § 817; 1930, § 841; 1942, § 2067.