97-7-45 - Legislature; preventing or attempting to prevent meetings.
§ 97-7-45. Legislature; preventing or attempting to prevent meetings.
Every person who wilfully, and by force or fraud, prevents, or attempts to prevent, the legislature, or either of the houses composing it, or any of the members thereof, from meeting or organizing, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, not exceeding ten years.
Sources: Codes, 1892, § 1189; 1906, § 1267; Hemingway's 1917, § 997; 1930, § 1026; 1942, § 2258.