Attempt to corrupt or awe jurors. Rescue of persons found Sec. 861. Every attempt to corrupt or awe jurors in the trial of any cause, either civil or criminal, depending in any court in this State, by menaces, threats, giving money, or promise of any pecuniary advantage or otherwise, shall on conviction be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. If any juror shall take any reward from either of the parties in a cause as aforesaid, or from any other person, he shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. Sec. 862. Whoever shall, by force or without due authority, guilty of capi- set at liberty any person found guilty of a capital offense, on conviction shall suffer imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding four tal offenses. Rescue of per sons commit teen years. Sec. 863. Whoever shall, by force, set at liberty, or aid to set ted for capital at liberty, any person committed to prison for any capital crime, shall on conviction suffer imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding seven years. offenses. Furnishing implements to escape. Sec. 864. Whoever shall furnish, or cause to be furnished, enable persons any tool or implement to any person in custody, for the purpose in custody to of enabling him to escape, shall on conviction suffer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. Whoever shall, by force or without due authority, set at liberty any person sons in custo- in custody for any offense not capital, shall on conviction be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars and imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years. Rescue of per dy for offenses not capital. Resistance to officers serving process. Sec. 865. Whoever shall resist, oppose or assault any officer of this State, while serving or attempting to serve or execute the process, or order of any court, or shall assault, beat or wound any officer or other person duly authorized, while serving or executing any process or order aforesaid, shall on conviction be imprisoned not exceeding six months, and fined not exceeding two hundred dollars. Sec. 866. Whoever shall forcibly oppose, obstruct or prevent Punishment any bail, or his agent duly appointed, from arresting any such defor preventing fendant, or shall forcibly rescue, or attempt to rescue him after he resting defen- shall have been arrested, shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to bail from ar dant. ing. all the pains and penalties that are by law prescribed for opposing, Sec. 867. Whoever, being lawfully imprisoned, shall break or Prison break conspire to break prison; whoever shall falsely and maliciously prosecute an innocent person of any crime, and who shall be accordingly prosecuted and acquitted, shall on conviction suffer imprisonment or fine, or both, at the discretion of the court. Oppression and extortion in office. Act 1855, p. 130. Sec. 868. Any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, constable, or other civil officer, who shall be guilty of oppression or extortion in the administration or under the color of his office, shall on conviction suffer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. D. Sec. 783. Sec. 869. If any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff or other misdemeanor civil officer, shall be guilty of any misdemeanor in the execution Penalty for of either of their respective offices, he shall on conviction suffer in office. fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. D. Sec. 783. treasurer in office. Sec. 870. Should the treasurer willfully neglect or refuse to perform any duty enjoined by law, or be guilty of any oppression Penalty on the or extortion in the performance of any duty of his office, or re- case of misdeceive any fee or reward not allowed by law; or should he, by meanor in color of his office, knowingly do any act not authorized by law, or in any other manner than is required by law, or illegally use or misapply any of the money belonging to the State, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary at hard labor for not less than five years. D. Sec. 783, 3783, 3784. Act 1855, p. 447. prisonment of misdemeanor.. Sec. 871. Should the auditor knowingly issue any warrant upon the treasurer not authorized by law, or should he willfully Fine and imneglect or refuse to perform any duty enjoined by law, or be guilty auditor for of any oppression or extortion, or receive any fee or reward for the performance of any duty not allowed by law, or should he, by color of his office, knowingly do any act not authorized, or in any other manner than is required by law, or illegally use or misapply any money belonging to the State, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and upon conviction be fined not more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned not more than five years, and be dismissed from office. D. Sec. 196. Act 1855, p. 125. Penalty for office by non-feasance school officers.. Sec. 872. A failure on the part of any district, parish or State officer to perform the duties imposed upon him in this act, and in the manner herein specified, is hereby declared a misdemeanor in in office, upon conviction whereof such officer shall be punished by a fine not less than fifty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the parish prison for a term of not less than thirty days and not exceeding three months. All prosecution for offenses against this section shall have precedence over all cases before any justice of the peace, or parish or district court. D. Sec. 1300. Act 1869, p. 175. falsifying reo- Sec. 873. Whoever shall feloniously take away, alter, falsify, or otherwise avoid any record, writ, process, or other proceeding Stealing or in any court in this State, by means whereof any judgment shall ords in courts.. be reversed, made void, or not take effect, or who shall acknowledge, or procure to be acknowledged in any of the courts of this State, any recognizance, bail or judgment, in the name of any per Penalty for auditor coun son not privy or consenting to the same, on conviction shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years. This section shall not extend to the acknowledgments of judgments by attorneys at law while in the due discharge of their duties. Act 1855, p. 130. Sec. 874. It shall not be lawful for the auditor to countersign bills for any banker or banking company, to an amount in the agtersigning bills gregate, beyond the amount of stocks or bonds deposited, at their rate of value estimated under this law. A violation of this prostocks deposit- vision, shall subject the auditor, on conviction, to a fine of five thousand dollars, and imprisonment for ten years at hard labor. beyond the amounts of ed. Defacing, al tering, etc., of records. Stealing, destroying, etc., ords, etc. D. Sec. 290. Act 1855, p. 214. Sec. 875. Whoever shall deface, alter, falsify or embezzle any record, enrollment or matter or instrument recorded, or registry thereof, with intent to defraud, shall upon conviction, pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at hard labor not more than two years. Sec. 876. Whoever shall steal, willfully destroy or falsify any of notarial rec- notarial record, act or document, shall be fined not exceeding two thousand nor less than one thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment at hard labor or otherwise, not more than two nor less than one year. Penalty in curred by bank make false entries or state ments. D. Sec. 2511. Sec. 877. Any banker, and any director, officer, agent or clerk of any banker or banking company, who shall make false stateofficers if they ments or entries in the books of such banker or banking company, or who shall exhibit false papers or practice willful concealment of facts within his or their knowledge, with intent to deceive the Board of Currency, or other person having lawful authority to examine, or to deceive the public as to the condition of such banker or banking company, as also any person who shall, with a view to defraud any such banker or banking company, knowingly draw or pay a check or checks, without funds in the said company drawn upon, or to the embezzlement of any of the money or assets of said banker or banking company, by any clerk, officer or agent thereof, shall be subject, on conviction, to imprisonment in the penitentiary of this State for a term not less than one year nor more than three. Judges, clerks, deputy clerks, And when such false statements are made under oath, the person or persons shall be adjudged guilty of perjury, and punished according to law. D. Sec. 303. Act 1855, p. 398. Sec. 878. No judge, clerk or deputy clerk, sheriff or deputy etc., prohibit- sheriff, or any other officer or his deputy, of any court in this ed from prac-State shall appear or plead as an attorney for any other person, in the court for which he is an officer, or shall practice or receive a fee or fees as an attorney at law in any case, or succession, ticing as neys at law. opened in said court, or act as attorney at law for said successions in any manner whatever, either directly or indirectly, in his own name or that of persons interposed; and any of said officers who shall violate the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on indictment and conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not less than six months, fined not less than five hundred dollars, be removed from office, and if an attorney at law, have his license canceled and be forever afterwards incapable of appearing and practising as an attorney at law in any court in this State. D Sec. 116, 117, 1960. Act 1861, p. 87. Penalty Sec. 879. If any person shall falsely and corruptly take the oath or oaths, in either of the clauses in section three of this act, Penalty for falsely taking such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned at hard la- the oath or bor in the penitentiary of this State for a term of not less than five nor more than ten years. D. Sec. 2589. Act 1868, p. 86. oaths of office. timidation and witnesses in Sec. 880. Whoever shall be convicted of bribery or attempting to bribe any witness, or by any force, or threat, or intimida- Bribery, intion of any kind, or by persuasion, to prevent any witness in a persuasion of criminal case, in any of the stages of prosecution, from making criminal acthe oath in any order to obtain a warrant of arrest, to the final tions puntrial inclusive, from appearing or testifying as a witness, shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary, not less than one nor more than five years. D. Sec. 3962. Act 1869, p. 33. ished. ished for fail Sec. 881. Any witness in a criminal proceeding, in any of its stages from making oath to obtain a warrant of arrest to the final trial inclusive, who shall fail to appear or give evidence when Witness punlegally required to do so, by reason of being bribed or persuaded ing to testify. not to do so, upon due conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary, not less than one nor more than five years. C. P. 135; D. Sec. 478, 658, 3963. fusing to de See. 882. If the defendant shall refuse to deliver over such books or papers upon demand he shall be deemed guilty of a mis- Penalty for redemeanor, and, upon prosecution thereof by indictment or inform- liver the office ation, and upon conviction fined not less than two hundred dol- Intrusion of lars, or imprisoned, at the discretion of the court, not exceeding office act. one year. Act 1868, p. 199. and books. grand jurors duty. Sec. 883. Any grand juror at any time of court when a grand jury is impaneled, who shall fail to inform the grand jury of any Punishment of violation of the criminal laws of this State, or of any crime com- for failure of mitted within the parish for which he is impaneled as a grand juror, since the sitting of the last preceding grand jury in that parish, which may have come to his personal knowledge, or of which he may have been informed, upon due conviction thereof L Grand jurors witnesses on duty. shall, if it be an offense not punishable in the penitentiary, of which he has not given information, be fined in a sum of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars; and if it be an offense which may be punished by death or imprisonment in the penitentiary, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for not less than one nor more than five years. Act 1869, p. 78. Sec. 884. In order to prosecute the offense prescribed in the trial of one of above section of this act, or to defend the charge, any member of their number the grand jury shall be a competent witness to testify either before the grand jury or on the examination or trial of the case. Sec. 885. The several judges of the courts in this State before make special whom criminal cases are tried, shall give this act specially in charge to each grand jury impaneled before them. Judges to charge to grand jury. Penalty for banks issuing able in specie. Sec. 886. It shall not be lawful for any bank to issue any note or other obligation for circulation except such as are payable in notes not pay- gold or silver on demand; and any officer of any bank issuing any note contrary to the intent and meaning of this section, and any director who shall by his vote authorize such issue, shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand, or imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Each director present shall be presumed to have voted for and authorized the issue, unless he make it appear by the minutes of the board that he voted against it. lars prohibited. D. Sec. 290, 292, 295, 314. Act 1855, p. 130. Sec. 887. It shall be unlawful for any individual or association of individuals, authorized or not authorized to carry on the busiIssue of notes ness of banking, or for any body politic or corporate within the under five dol State of Louisiana, to make, emit, issue or cause to be issued, pay out or receive in payment, any bill of credit, bank note, promissory note, issued within or without the limits of the State of Louisiana, or any other instrument of writing, to be used as money or as a circulating medium, in a less amount or of a less denomination than five dollars. Any individual or association of individuals, or body politic or corporate, so offending, shall, on conviction, forfeit for each and every offense the sum of twenty dollars, for the use of the parish in which the offense may have been committed. for those who REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS. Sec. 888. The supervisor so appointed for each parish shall Form of oath require every person, before he is registered as a voter, to take were never dis- and subscribe any of the following affidavits as the case may refranchised. quire, and the supervisor is hereby authorized to administer said oaths: I, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I am twenty-one years of age, was born (or naturalized, as the case may be) in the United States, and am subject to the juris |