If any elector, manager, clerk or canvasser at any election, or any executive officer attending the same, shall receive any gift, money, financial award, reward, or promise thereof or if any person shall offer such gift, money, financial award, reward, or promise thereof to influence any elector, clerk, canvasser, or any executive officer attending any election in his vote, opinion, action, or judgment in relation to such election, the person so offending shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary not more than two (2) years, or be fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), or both; or in a county jail not more than one (1) year, or be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-13-1
Bribery; influencing electors or election officers
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 497 So. 2d 70 - Fanning v. State (1986)
Most recently applied in 497 So. 2d 70 - Fanning v. State (September 1986)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(1); 1857, ch. 64, art. 37; 1871, § 2514; 1880, § 2370; 1892, § 984; 1906, § 1060; Hemingway’s 1917, § 788; 1930, § 804; 1942, …
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