Mississippi Code § 97-3-89

Timber, trees and saw logs; tampering with to injure or harass the owner prohibited
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Any person who shall maliciously and knowingly drive, force, place, or otherwise insert, or cause to be driven, forced, placed or otherwise inserted any piece or kind of iron, steel, or metallic spike, nail, bar, rod, explosive, or other substance of any kind whatsoever into any kind of saw timber, trees, logs, or timber or logs, standing or fallen, which are not his own, and which are, or may be classed as commercial, or merchantable timber, logs or trees, from which lumber may be produced, with the intent and purpose of annoying, harassing, injuring or damaging the owner of same, in his person or property, or any other person, or for any other unauthorized purpose whatsoever, without the consent of the owner of such timber, logs, or trees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both. Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 1120; 1930, § 1150; 1942, § 2387; Laws, 1914, ch. 143.
Any person who shall maliciously and knowingly drive, force, place, or otherwise insert, or cause to be driven, forced, placed or otherwise inserted any piece or kind of iron, steel, or metallic spike, nail, bar, rod, explosive, or other substance of any kind whatsoever into any kind of saw timber, trees, logs, or timber or logs, standing or fallen, which are not his own, and which are, or may be classed as commercial, or merchantable timber, logs or trees, from which lumber may be produced, with the intent and purpose of annoying, harassing, injuring or damaging the owner of same, in his person or property, or any other person, or for any other unauthorized purpose whatsoever, without the consent of the owner of such timber, logs, or trees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both. Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 1120; 1930, § 1150; 1942, § 2387; Laws, 1914, ch. 143.
Any person who shall maliciously and knowingly drive, force, place, or otherwise insert, or cause to be driven, forced, placed or otherwise inserted any piece or kind of iron, steel, or metallic spike, nail, bar, rod, explosive, or other substance of any kind whatsoever into any kind of saw timber, trees, logs, or timber or logs, standing or fallen, which are not his own, and which are, or may be classed as commercial, or merchantable timber, logs or trees, from which lumber may be produced, with the intent and purpose of annoying, harassing, injuring or damaging the owner of same, in his person or property, or any other person, or for any other unauthorized purpose whatsoever, without the consent of the owner of such timber, logs, or trees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both. Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 1120; 1930, § 1150; 1942, § 2387; Laws, 1914, ch. 143.
Any person who shall maliciously and knowingly drive, force, place, or otherwise insert, or cause to be driven, forced, placed or otherwise inserted any piece or kind of iron, steel, or metallic spike, nail, bar, rod, explosive, or other substance of any kind whatsoever into any kind of saw timber, trees, logs, or timber or logs, standing or fallen, which are not his own, and which are, or may be classed as commercial, or merchantable timber, logs or trees, from which lumber may be produced, with the intent and purpose of annoying, harassing, injuring or damaging the owner of same, in his person or property, or any other person, or for any other unauthorized purpose whatsoever, without the consent of the owner of such timber, logs, or trees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both.
Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 1120; 1930, § 1150; 1942, § 2387; Laws, 1914, ch. 143.

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