97-41-9 - Failure of owner or custodian to provide sustenance.
§ 97-41-9. Failure of owner or custodian to provide sustenance.
If any person be the owner or have the custody of any living creature and unjustifiably neglect or refuse to furnish it necessary sustenance, food, or drink, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sources: Codes, 1892, § 1015; 1906, § 1092; Hemingway's 1917, § 818; 1930, § 842; 1942, § 2068.