33:3-10 - Sale, etc. of poisoned liquors causing serious injury or death; penalty; certain laws unaffected
33:3-10. Sale, etc. of poisoned liquors causing serious injury or death; penalty; certain laws unaffected
Any person, corporation, partnership or member of any association or any agent, servant or employee of any person, corporation, partnership or member of any association who shall have sold, bartered, given away, furnished or otherwise disposed of to any person whatsoever any alcohol for internal consumption, whiskey, gin, brandy, wine or any other alcoholic beverage of any nature whatsoever containing any poisonous chemical or chemicals or any poisonous ingredients of any description whatsoever which shall have caused serious injury to the health or bodily condition of any person or shall have caused the death of any person shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), or imprisonment at hard labor or otherwise not exceeding ten years, or both.
Nothing in this section is intended to diminish, alter or in anywise change or in anywise affect the provisions of sections 2A:113-1 to 2A:113-5 of the New Jersey Statutes.
Amended by L.1953, c. 32, p. 582, s. 6, eff. March 19, 1953.