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97. Every justice of the peace or constable of the same township who purchases or is interested in the purchase of any judgment or part thereof on the docket of, or on any docket in possession of such justice, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

in addition to the punishment described, forfeits his office and is 98. Every officer convicted of any crime defined in this chapter, inaddition to the punishment described, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.

99. The superintendent of the state printing shall not, during his continuance in office, have any interest, either directly or indirectly, in any contract in any way connected with his office as superintendent of state printing; nor shall he, during said period, be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any state printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, or other state work of any kind connected with his office; nor shall he, directly or indirectly, be interested in any contract for furnishing paper, or other printing stock or material, to or for use in his said office; and any violations of these provisions shall subject him, on conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction, to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than two years nor more than five years, and to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 1895-235.

100. If the superintendent of the state printing corruptly colludes with any person or persons furnishing paper or materials, or bidding therefor, or with any other person or persons, or has any secret understanding with him or them, by himself or through others, to defraud the state, or by which the state is defrauded or made to sustain a loss, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this chapter, he, upon conviction thereof, forfeits his office, and is subject to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than two years, and to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more three thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment. 1905-647.

CHAPTER II.

101. Rescuing Prisoners.

Rescues.

102. Retaking goods from custody of officer.

101. Every person who rescues or attempts to rescue, or aids another person in rescuing or attempting to rescue, any prisoner from any prison,or from any officer or person having him in lawful custody, is punishable as follows:

1. If such prisoner was in custody upon a conviction of felony punishable with death: by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than fourteen years;

2. If such prisoner was in custody upon a conviction of any other felony: by imprisonment in the state prison not less than six months nor more than five years;

3. If such prisoner was in custody upon a charge of felony: by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding two years;

4. If such prisoner was in custody otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of felony: by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months.

102. Every person who willfully injures or destroys, or takes or attempts to take, or assists any person in taking or attempting to take, from the custody of any officer or person, any personal proparty which such officer or person has in charge under any process of law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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105. Every prisoner confined in a state prison, for a term less :han for life, who escapes therefrom, is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for a term of not less than one year; said second term of imprisonment to commence from the time he would otherwise have been discharged from said prison. 1905-723.

106. Every prisoner committed to a state prison for a term less than for life, who escapes or attempts to escape while be conveyed to or from or while confined within such prison or while at work outside such prison under the surveillance of prison guards is guilty of a felony and on conviction thereof the term of imprisonment there for shall commence from the time such convict would otherwise have been discharged from said prison. 1921-77.

107. Every prisoner charged with or convicted of a felony who is confined in any jail or prison or an inmate of any public training school or reformatory or county hospital, or who is engaged on any county road or other county work or who is in the lawful custody of any officer or person, who escapes or attempts to escape from such jail, prison, public training school, reformatory or county hospital, or from the custody of the officer or person in charge of him while engaged on or going to or returning from such county work or from the custody of any officer or person in whose lawful custody he is, is guilty of a felony and is punishable as provided in section one hundred eight of the Penal Code. 1923-107.

108. Every keeper of a prison, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or jailer, or person employed as a guard, who fraudulently contrives, procures, aids, connives at, or voluntarily permits the escape of any prisoner in custody, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years, and fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

109. Any person who willfully assists any paroled prisoner whose parole has been revoked, any escape, any prisoner confined in any prison or jail, or any inmate of any public training school or reformatory, or any person in the lawful custody ofany officer or person, to escape, or in an attempt to escape from such prison or jail, or public training school or reformatory, or custody, is punishable as provided in section one hundred and eight of the Penal Code. 1907-271.

109a. new. Any person who wilfully assists any inmate of a state hospital to escape, or in an attempt to escape therefrom, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1917-275.

110. Every person who carries or sends into a prison, jail, public training school, or reformatory, anything useful to aid a prisoner or inmate in making his escape, with intent thereby to facilitate the escape of any prisoner or inmate confined therein, is punishable as provided in section one hundred and eight. 1905-647.

111. Whenever a trial is had of any person under any of the provisions of sections one hundred and five and one hundred and six, and whenever a convict in the state prison is tried for any crime committed therein, the county clerk of the county where such trial is had must make out a statement of all the costs incurred by the county for the trial of such case, and of guarding and keeping such convict, and of the execution of the sentence of such convict, properly certified to by a judge of the superior court of such county, which statement must be sent to the board of state prison directors for their approval; and after such approval, said board must cause the amount of such costs to be paid out of the money appropriated for the support of the state prison, to the county treasurer of the county where such trial was had. 1905-774.

CHAPTER IV.

Forging, Stealing, Mutilating, and Falsifying Judicial and Public Records and Documents

113. Destruction, public records, by officers.

114. Larceny, etc., by other per

sons.

115. Offering false or forged in

struments for record. 116. Adding names, etc., jury lists.

117. Falsifying jury lists, etc.

113. Every officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or any paper or proceeding of any court, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his hands for any purpose, who is guilty of stealing, willfully destroying, multilating, defacing, altering or falsifying, removing or secreting the whole or any part of such record, map, book, paper, or proceeding, or who permits any other person so to do, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than fourteen years.

114 Every person not an officer such as is referred to in the preceding section, who is guilty of any ofthe acts specified in. that section, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both.

115. Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, or registered, or recorded under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a felony.

116. Every person who adds any names to the list of persons selected to serve as jurors for the county, either by placing the same in the jury-box, or otherwise, or extracts any name therefrom, or destroys the jury-box or any of the pieces of paper containing the names of jurors, or mutilates or defaces such names so that the same cannot be read, or changes such names on the pieces of paper, except in cases allowed by law, is guilty of a felony.

1874-425.

117. Every officer of person required by law to certify to the list of persons selected as jurors who maliciously, corruptly, or willfully certifies to a false or incorrect list, or a list containing other names than those selected, or who, being required by law to write down the names plased on the certified lists on separate pieces of paper, does not write down and place in the jury-box the same names that are on the certified list, and no more and no less than are on such list, is guilty of a felony.

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118. Every person who, having taken an oath that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly before any competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any of the cases in which such an oath may by law be administered, willfully and contrary to such oath, states as true any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury.

118a. Any person who, in an affidavit taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, swears, affirms, declares, deposes, or certifies that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify before any competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case then pending or thereafter to be instituted, in any particular manner, or to any particuler fact, and in such affidavit willfully and contrary to such oath states as true any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury. In any prosecution under this sec

tion, the subsequent testimony of such person, in any action involving the matters in such affidavit contained, which is contrary to any of the matters in such affidavit contained, shall be prima facie evidence that the matters in such affidavit were false. 1905648.

119. The term "oath," as used in the last twe sections, includes an affirmation and every other mode authorized by law of attesting the truth of that which is stated. 1905-648.

120. So much of an oath of office as relates to the future performance of official duties is not such an oath as is intended by the two preceding sections.

121. It is no defense to a prosecution for perjury that the oath was administered or taken in an irregular manner, or that the person accused of perjury did not go before, or was not in the presence of, the officer purporting to administer the oath, if such accused caused or procured such officer to certify that the oath had been taken or administered. 1905-648.

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