§ 14-258. Conveying messages and weapons to or trading with convicts and other prisoners.
§14‑258. Conveying messages and weapons to or trading with convicts andother prisoners.
If any person shall convey toor from any convict any letters or oral messages, or shall convey to anyconvict or person imprisoned, charged with crime and awaiting trial any weaponor instrument by which to effect an escape, or that will aid him in an assaultor insurrection, or shall trade with a convict for his clothing or stolengoods, or shall sell to him any article forbidden him by prison rules, he shallbe guilty of a Class H felony: Provided, that when a murder, an assault or anescape is effected with the means furnished, the person convicted of furnishingthe means shall be punished as a Class F felon. (1873‑4, c. 158; s. 12;Code, s. 3441; Rev., s. 3662; 1911, c. 11; C.S., s. 4406; 1979, c. 760, s. 5;1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1, c. 179, s. 14; 1993, c.539, s. 1218; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)