Lotteries; penalty for putting on; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Enlow v. Tishomingo County (1992)
Most recently applied in 792 So. 2d 321 - MS GAMING COM'N v. Six Video Gamb. Devices (May 2001)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 3(23); 1857, ch. 64, art. 141; 1871, § 2605; 1880, § 2851; 1892, § 1199; 1906, § 1277; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1009; 1930, § 1038; 1942, § 227…
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
If any person, in order to raise money for himself or another, or for any purpose whatever, shall publicly or privately put up a lottery to be drawn or adventured for, he shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years.
This section shall not apply to the operation of any game or lottery authorized by Chapter 115, Title 27.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.