If any person shall, by any means whatsoever, wilfully injure or destroy any of the works, materials, furniture, or ornaments of the capitol, or any of the buildings or monuments on the grounds belonging thereto, or shall wilfully deface any of the walls thereof, or shall write or make any drawing or characters thereon with pencil-mark, or otherwise, or do any indecent act, either on or to said walls, or within the same, or shall wilfully deface or injure the trees, fences, pavement, or soil on said grounds, such person, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-7-9
Capitol building; defacing
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Brown v. State (2012)
Most recently applied in Brown v. State (December 2012)
Codes, 1857, ch. 6, art. 101; 1871, § 194; 1880, § 273; 1892, § 1000; 1906, § 1077; Hemingway’s 1917, § 804; 1930, § 823; 1942, § 2049.
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