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19-1907.Intoxicating liquors; penalty. No sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison shall under any pretense give, sell or deliver to any person committed to prison for any cause whatever any spirituous, vinous or fermented or other intoxicating liquors, unless a physician shall certify in writing that the health of such prisoner requires it, in which case he may be allowed the quantity prescribed, and no more; and any sheriff, jailer or keeper of any county jail who shall violate the provisions of this section, or who shall willingly or negligently suffer any prisoner to have any liquor prohibited in this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 53, § 7; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 19-1907.



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