97-13-33 - Voting; dishonest decisions by managers concerning qualifications of voters.
§ 97-13-33. Voting; dishonest decisions by managers concerning qualifications of voters.
When any one who offers to vote at an election shall be objected to by any challenger as a person unqualified to vote, if the manager of such election shall permit him to vote without honestly considering his qualifications, or if any manager shall refuse the vote of such person without honestly considering his qualifications, or if any manager shall knowingly permit an unqualified person to vote, or shall knowingly refuse the vote of a qualified person, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or both.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 6(8); 1857, ch. 64, art. 77; 1871, § 2541; 1880, § 2776; 1892, § 1048; 1906, § 1126; Hemingway's 1917, § 852; 1930, § 877; 1942, § 2103.