1262 ARTICLE 27

Sodomy.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 486. 1912, sec. 439. 1904, sec. 387. 1888, sec. 250. 1793; ch. 57, sec. 10.

1809, ch. 138, sec. 4.

577. Every person convicted of the crime of sodomy shall be sentenced
to the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than ten years.

An assault with intent to commit sodomy, held to be punishable by act. of 1793, ch. 57.
In indictment for sodomy, it is unnecessary to lay the carnaliter cognovit, Davis v.
State, 3 H. & J. 157.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 487. 1912, sec. 439A. 1916, ch. 616.

578. Every person who shall be convicted of taking into his or her
mouth the sexual organ of any other person or animal, or who shall be
convicted of- placing his or her sexual organ in the mouth of any other
person or animal, or who shall be convicted of committing any other un-
natural or perverted sexual practice with any other person or animal, shall
be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned
in jail or in the House of Correction or in the Penitentiary for a period
not exceeding ten years, or shall be both fined and imprisoned within the
limits above prescribed in the discretion of the Court.

And in any indictment for the commission of any of the acts, hereby
declared to be offenses, it shall not be necessary to set forth the particular
unnatural or perverted sexual practice with the commission of which the
defendant may be charged, nor to set forth, the particular manner in which
said unnatural or perverted sexual practice was committed, but it shall be
sufficient if the indictment set forth that the defendant committed a certain
unnatural and perverted sexual practice with a person or animal, as the
case may be.

Telegraphs and Telephones—Injury to.

An; Code, 1924, sec. 488. 1912, sec. 440. 1904, sec. 388. 1888, sec. 251. 1868, ch. 471,

sec. 134, 1929, ch. 308.

579. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally injure, molest
or destroy any of the lines, posts, piers or abutments, or the materials or
property connected with the working of any telegraph or telephone lines,
shall on conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be pun-
ished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in
the county or city jail not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of
the court before which the conviction shall be had.

Telegraphs and Telephones.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 489. 1912, sec. 441. 1904, sec. 389. 1888, sec. 252. 1868, ch. 471,
sec. 135. 1900, ch. 610.

580. Any person connected with any telegraph or telephone corpora-
tion, company or individuals operating said lines for profit in this. State,
either as clerk, operator, messsenger, or in any other capacity, who shall
wilfully divulge the contents or nature of the contents of any private com-
munication entrusted to him for transmission or delivery, or who shall
wilfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same, shall, on convic-
tion before any court having criminal jurisdiction, be adjudged guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall suffer imprisonment in the jail in the county or
city where such conviction shall be had for a term of not more than three