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An Act to change the Forty-fourth Section of the Eight [sic] Division of the Penal Code of this State. 1860 55 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0511 and id is 1 raw text is: PUBLIC LAWS.-PEAL CODE. Forty-fourth Section Eighth Division of the Penal Code. keeper or physician, who sells or delivers to any persons other than druggist or practising physician any of the following posionous drugs, viz: arsenic, strychnine, hydrocyanic acid, and aconite,shallace.idy of keep a register and enter therein the name and place of residence ?st'- of the person to whom such drug is sold or delivered, the name and vto d quantity of the poisonous drug so sold or delivered, and the time of the sale or delivery. Any druggist, store-keeper, or physician, who fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this section, Pe ...t shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and on conviction thereof, shall be fined, or imprisoned in the coimonjail.of the county; the fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, and the imprisonment not to ex- ceed six months. SEC. II. Any person who shall furnish any slave or free person Sale of, to of color, with any of the drugs enumerated in the first section ofslavea and this act, or any other poisonous drug, shall be guilty of a felony ;prohiiteT2' and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding twenty years. SEC. III. If any person shall furnish any slave or free person of color, with any of the drugs enumerated in the first section of this inemh act, or with any other poisonous drug or matter likely to produce'd'ug 0 slaye. know. death, with the intent or purpose that such poison shall be mali- int will ciouly dminsteed, o sch ered m-ins ciously administered, in any manner, to any person or persons, such 'edflio- person so furnishing any slave or free person of color with such ??i'f - poison, with the intent aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be tO year..xo punished by confinement and hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not exceeding twenty, nor less than ten years. SEC. IV. If any person shall furnish any slave or free person of enait, in color, with any poison mentioned in the first section of this act, orCe t any other poisonous drug or matter likely to produce death, with?:a,,m a 0 itrd, death the intent or purpose that such poison shall be in any manner nali-.' ea T8aoo- ciously administered to any person, and if such poison be so admin-i'tenar. istered whereby death to any person ensues, or whereby the health of any person is injured or impaired,such person so offending, shall on conviction thereof, be punished with death, or by imprisonment and hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not less than five years. at the discretion of the Judge. SEC. V. All laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed, but only so far as they do conflict with the same. Assented to Dec. 19th, 1860. (No. 62.) An Act to change the Forty-fourth Section of the Eight Division of the Penal Code of* this State.* SECTION 1. The General Assembly do enact, That from and after the passage of this act, the forty-fourth section of the eighth Di- vision of the Penal Code of this State, shall be as follows, to-wit: .See T. R. R Cobb's New Digest, p. 810. 55

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