As Amended
SEC. 97-3-13. False confinement; sending sane person to insane asylum.
Every person or officer who shall maliciously send to or confine in an asylum, mad-house, or other place, any sane person as a lunatic or insane person, knowing such person to be sane, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than one year, or in the county jail not more than six months.
SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 1316; 1906, Sec. 1390; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1133; 1930, Sec. 1164; 1942, Sec. 2407.