All laws made or to be made for the suppression of gambling or gaming, are remedial and not penal statutes, and shall be so construed by the courts.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-33-29
Gambling; laws remedial, not penal
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Trainer v. State (2006)
Most recently applied in Trainer v. State (April 2006)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 11(7); 1857, ch. 64, art. 146; 1871, § 2610; 1880, § 2856; 1892, § 1133; 1906, § 1215; Hemingway’s 1917, § 945; 1930, § 972; 1942, § 2202.
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