97-9-5 - Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-9-5. Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished.
 

If any person drawn, summoned, chosen, or appointed as a juror, arbitrator, or referee shall, corruptly take or receive any gratuity, gift, or reward whatever, or any promise thereof, or if the wife of such person, with his knowledge and consent, shall so take or receive, to influence any verdict, award, or report of such juror, arbitrator, or referee, he shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or in the county jail not more than one year, or fined one thousand dollars, or both, and any person who shall make or offer any such gratuity, reward, or any promise thereof, shall, on conviction, suffer the same penalty. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 5(11); 1857, ch. 64, art. 36; 1871, § 2513; 1880, § 2729; 1892, § 983; 1906, § 1059; Hemingway's 1917, § 787; 1930, § 803; 1942, § 2029.