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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. [ART. 72.
till the said sum be satisfied. And if the offender shall not be able to

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pay the said sum of money, then he shall remain in prison twelve
months.

Id s 39
1809, c 138, s 6.
Maliciously
stabbing or
killing homes,
etc
Punishment.

79. Every person convicted of wilfully and malicously stabbing,
killing, 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
inclosures, shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for not
less than eighteen months nor more than four years.

1870, c 354
Maliciously
stabbing or kill-
ing cattle

80. E very person convicted of wilfully and maliciously stabbing,
killing or destroying any bull, steer, cow, heifer, or calf, not the
property of such person, and not in the act of trespassing on his in-

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closures, shall undergo confinement in the penitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than four years

Art 30, s 40
1835,c.200,s 1
Entrance into
private or public
property with
intent to injure
or destroy

8 1. If any person shall enter into any dwelling-house, out-house,
stable, barn, warehouse, storehouse, banking-house, factory, work-
shop, court-house, church, mill-house, or any building occupied in
part or in whole by any of the public municipal or private corpora-
tions of this State, or upon any vessel, or upon any yard wheie lum-
ber, coal, or any sort of goods and chattels are deposited or kept

Or with intent
to kill, maim,
etc

for the purpose of trade, with the intent maliciously to injure or
destroy any of the buildings aforesaid, or any part thereof, or any
property or effects 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 leather any person being in or upon
any of the premises aforesaid, upon conviction thereof, he shall be

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sentenced to the pent'entiary for not less than two years nor more
than twenty years.

Id s 41
1826, c 260, s 2,
1844, c 129
Injuring grain,
shrubs, etc

82. Any person who shall advisedly and maliciously, with' the
intent to injure the owner of any land, house or building, cut down
any tree, or cut down, break, dig or pull up, or in any manner destroy
or injure, any growing grain, shrubs, herbs, roots, vines, or vege-
tables, or shall cut, break, pull off, destroy, or injure any part of any

Or part of house,
etc

house or other building, or of any wall or fence, or any ornament or
other valuable article attached to any house or other building, wall,
or fence, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a mis-

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demeanor, and shall be fined and imprisoned, or both, in the discre-
tion of the court before which he shall be tried and convicted.

1868, c 56
Trespass on
land and injur-
ing, etc , bouses,
etc.

83. Any person or persons who shall enter upon the land of
any other person or body corporate or politic in this State, and
shall wilfully or maliciously injure or destroy any house, take and
carry away any growing tree, or cut down a tree, or destroy a vine,
plant, shrubbery, root, vegetable, fruit or grain, or any fencing, cord-
wood or hoop-poles, shall on conviction thereof be adjudged guilty
of a misdemeanor, and after presentment and indictment by a

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grand jury, and conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the city or
county jail not less than one month nor more than two months, or
be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid in the discretion of the