1000 ARTICLE 27.

such County or municipality may recover, from time to time, the sum or
sums expended for the maintenance and support of such parent by civil
action against the adult children, or any adult child, who may be possessed
of or able to earn means sufficient to provide such parent with necessary
shelter, food, care and clothing; provided recovery may not be had for
maintenance and support furnished more than two years before the insti-
tution of any suit.

Destroying Property Maliciously.

An. Code, sec.79. 1904, sec. 71. 1888, sec. 48. 1744, ch. 5. 1751, ch. 7.

94. If any person shall cut or destroy any tobacco plants belonging to
any other person, or shall cause the same to be done, or shall by any means
cause or excite any person to cut or destroy any tobacco or tobacco plants
belonging to any other person, on conviction thereof he shall pay to the
party grieved five hundred dollars, and suffer six months' imprisonment,
and shall also remain in prison till the said sum be satisfied. And if the
offender shall not be able to pay the said sum of money, then he shall remain
in prison twelve months.

An. Code, sec. 80. 1904, sec. 72. 1888, sec. 49. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.

95. Every person convicted of wilfully and maliciously stabbing, kill-
ing or destroying any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass or mule, not the
property of such person, and not in the act of trespassing on his enclosures,
shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for not less than eighteen
months nor more than four years.

An. Code, sec. 81. 1904, sec. 73. 1888, sec. 50. 1870, ch. 354.

96. Every person convicted of wilfully and maliciously stabbing, kill-
ing or destroying any bull, steer, cow, heifer, or calf, not the property of
such person, and not in the act of trespassing on his enclosures, shall
undergo confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more
than four years.

An. Code, sec. 82. 1904, sec. 74. 1888, sec. 51. 1882, ch. 447, 1892, ch. 99.

97. Any person who shall enter any dwelling-house, out-house, stable,
barn, warehouse, storehouse, banking-house, factory, workshop, court house,
school house, mill house, church, or any building occupied in part or in
whole by any of the public, municipal, or private corporations of the State,
or upon any vessel, or upon any yard where lumber, coal or any sort of goods
and chattels are deposited or kept for the purpose of trade, or upon any
property or land, with the intent maliciously to injure or destroy any of the
buildings aforesaid, or any part thereof, or any furniture, property or
effects therein or thereon being found, or any property or effects deposited
or kept in, or upon any vessel or yard, or with the intent to slay, kill, maim
or tar and feather any person being in or upon any of the premises afore-
said, upon conviction thereof shall, in the discretion of the court, be sen-
tenced to the penitentiary of this State for not less than two years nor more