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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-23

Gambling; gambling with minor knowing him to be under-age; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law

Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 143; 1871, § 2607; 1880, § 2853; 1892, § 1130; 1906, § 1212; Hemingway’s 1917, § 942; 1930, § 969; 1942, § 2199; Laws, 2018, 1st Ex Sess, ch. 2, § 57, …

Any person of full age who shall bet any money or thing of value with a minor, knowing such minor to be under the age of twenty-one (21) years, or allowing any such minor to bet at any game or games, or at any gaming table exhibited by him, or in which he is interested or in any manner concerned, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not exceeding two (2) years.

This section shall apply to minors under the age of twenty-one (21) as it might apply to the operation of any game or lottery authorized by Chapter 115, Title 27.

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