As Amended
SEC. 97-41-1. Living creatures not to be cruelly treated.
If any person shall override, overdrive, overload, torture, torment, unjustifiably injure, deprive of necessary sustenance, food, or drink; or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate; or cause or procure to be overridden, overdriven, overloaded, tortured, unjustifiably injured, tormented, or deprived of necessary sustenance, food or drink; or to be cruelly beaten or needlessly mutilated or killed, any living creature, every such offender shall, for every offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SOURCES: Codes, 1880, Sec. 804; 1892, Sec. 1014; 1906, Sec. 1091; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 817; 1930, Sec. 841; 1942, Sec. 2067.