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any foreign country and not any part of the United States any felon or
convict shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen
months nor more than five years.

Incest.

An. Code, sec. 281. 1904, sec. 258. 1888, sec. 153. 1884, ch. 130.

314. Every person who shall knowingly have carnal knowledge of
another person, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which
marriages are prohibited by law in this State, shall be deemed guilty of
felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in
the penitentiary for a term not less than one nor more than ten years, in the
discretion of the court.

Insane Convicts.

An. Code, sec. 282. 1912, ch. 496.

315. Whenever any convict confined in any jail in any city or county
in this State shall become insane or lunatic, the warden of such jail, or any
person on behalf of such convict, may file a petition, either during the
session or recess of the Court, in the Circuit Court having jurisdiction in
the city or county, where the jail in which such convict is confined, is
situated, alleging that the said convict hath become insane or a lunatic, and
still is so at the time of the filing of the petition, and setting forth the
misdemeanor or crime of which such insane person is convict and the date
upon which his term of imprisonment will expire; and the said Court, if
the petition be filed during a session thereof, shall cause a jury of twelve
to be forthwith empanelled, who shall be drawn from the jurors attending
the sessions of the Court, and shall charge said jury to inquire whether such
convict hath become insane or a lunatic and is still so; and any judge of
said Court, if the petition be filed during recess of the Court, shall pass an
order on said petition, as promptly as may be, requiring the sheriff of the
city or county where said convict is confined, forthwith to summon a jury
of twelve good and lawful men to attend before such judge, at the time and
place named in the order, who shall be empanelled and charged by the
said judge to inquire whether such convict hath become insane or a lunatic
and still is so; and if the jury so as aforesaid empanelled and charged by the
Court, or the jury empanelled and charged by any judge thereof in'recess
of Court, shall find that such convict hath become insane or a lunatic, and
still is so at the time of the inquisition, the said Court, or the said judge,
as the case may be, shall order such insane or lunatic convict to be removed
from the jail where he is confined and placed in a sanatorium, hospital
or other place where he may receive care and treatment, and there be con-
fined at the expense of the city or county wherein such jail is situated, until
he shall have recovered his reason and be discharged by due course of law;
provided, however, if such convict recover his reason before the expiration
of the term for which he was committed to the jail from which he was
taken, the Court or the judge that ordered his removal therefrom may order