As Amended
SEC. 97-33-29. Gambling; laws remedial, not penal.
All laws made or to be made for the suppression of gambling or gaming, are remedial and not penal statutes, and shall be so construed by the courts.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 11(7); 1857, ch. 64, art. 146; 1871, Sec. 2610; 1880, Sec. 2856; 1892, Sec. 1133; 1906, Sec. 1215; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 945; 1930, Sec. 972; 1942, Sec. 2202.