Miss. Code § 97-29-29

Current through the 2024 Regular Session

Section 97-29-29 - Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate

If persons divorced for incest shall, after such divorce, cohabit or live together as man and wife, or be guilty of a single act of adultery or fornication, such persons so offending shall be guilty of incest and fined, on conviction, five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years or both.

Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 185; 1871, § 2648; 1880, § 2896; 1892, § 1169; 1906, § 1247; Hemingway's 1917, § 977; 1930, § 1005; 1942, § 2235.