97-39-7 - Posting or publishing or vilifying another.
§ 97-39-7. Posting or publishing or vilifying another.
If any person shall post or publish another for not fighting a duel or for not sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, or shall use any reproachful or contemptuous language, whether oral, written, or printed, to or concerning another for not accepting or sending a challenge to fight a duel, or with intent to provoke a duel, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished accordingly.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 2748; 1892, § 1039; 1906, § 1117; Hemingway's 1917, § 843; 1930, § 868; 1942, § 2094.