As Amended
SEC. 97-33-31. Lotteries; penalty for putting on.
If any person, in order to raise money for himself or another, or for any purpose whatever, shall publicly or privately put up a lottery to be drawn or adventured for, he shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding five years.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 3(23); 1857, ch. 64, art. 141; 1871, Sec. 2605; 1880, Sec. 2851; 1892, Sec. 1199; 1906, Sec. 1277; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1009; 1930, Sec. 1038; 1942, Sec. 2270.