MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 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, Sec. 2748; 1892, Sec. 1039; 1906, Sec. 1117; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 843; 1930, Sec. 868; 1942, Sec. 2094.


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