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§61-6-5 Death of person in suppression of riots and unlawful assemblages.

§61-6-5. Death of person in suppression of riots and unlawful assemblages.
If, by any means taken under the authority of this article to disperse any such assemblage or arrest those engaged in it, any person present, as spectator or otherwise, be killed or wounded, and neither malice, nor premeditation be present, any member of the department of public safety, sheriff, or mayor exercising such authority, and everyone acting under his order, shall be held guiltless; and if the member of the department of public safety, sheriff or mayor, or any person acting under the order of either of them, be killed or wounded in taking such means, or by the rioters, all persons engaged in such assemblage shall be deemed guilty of such killing or wounding.

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