Miss. Code § 97-33-29

Current through the 2024 Regular Session

Section 97-33-29 - Gambling; laws remedial, not penal

All laws made or to be made for the suppression of gambling or gaming, are remedial and not penal statutes, and shall be so construed by the courts.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 11(7); 1857, ch. 64, art. 146; 1871, § 2610; 1880, § 2856; 1892, § 1133; 1906, § 1215; Hemingway's 1917, § 945; 1930, § 972; 1942, § 2202.