97-33-23 - Gambling; gambling with minor knowing him to be under-age.
§ 97-33-23. Gambling; gambling with minor knowing him to be under-age.
Any person of full age who shall bet any money or thing of value with a minor, knowing such minor to be under the age of twenty-one years, or allowing any such minor to bet at any game or games, or at any gaming-table exhibited by him, or in which he is interested or in any manner concerned, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 143; 1871, § 2607; 1880, § 2853; 1892, § 1130; 1906, § 1212; Hemingway's 1917, § 942; 1930, § 969; 1942, § 2199.