17-170 - Destroying or delaying election returns.

§  17-170.  Destroying  or  delaying  election  returns.  A  messenger  appointed by authority of law to receive and carry a report, certificate  or certified copy of  any  statement  relating  to  the  result  of  any  election,   who  wilfully  mutilates,  tears,  defaces,  obliterates  or  destroys the same, or does any other act which prevents the delivery  of  it  as  required by law; and a person who takes away from such messenger  any such report, certificate or certified copy, with intent  to  prevent  its  delivery,  or  who  wilfully  does  any injury or other act in this  section specified, is guilty of a felony.