SEC. 866. (Punishment for preventing bail from arresting defendant.) See D. sec. 91. D. sec. 365; Act 1855, p. 42. SEC. 866. Whoever shall be convicted of compounding a felony, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor or otherwise, not Compounding of felony. exceding two years, or fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. (Act 1882, p. 9, No. 12.) SEC. 867. Whoever, being lawfully imprisoned, shall break or conspire to break prison; whoever shall falsely and maliciously prose- Prison breaking. cute an innocent person of any crime, and who shall be accordingly prosecuted and acquitted, shall, on conviction, suffer imprisonment or fine, or both, at the discretion of the court. Act 1855, p. 130. SEC. 868. Any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, consta extortion in ble or other civil officer, who shall be guilty of oppression or extor- Oppression and D. sec. 783; Act 1873, p. 62, No. 26; Act 1877, p. 14, No. 9; Act 1877, Ex. SEC. 869. If any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff or other civil Penalty for misofficer, shall be guilty of any misdemeanor in the execution of either of demeanor in office. their respective offices, he shall, on conviction, suffer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. Act 1873, p. 157, No. 85; Act 1870, Ex. S.. p. 95, No. 40, sec. 6; Act 1875, p 60, No. 27; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 49, No. 30; p. 64, No. 39; p. 128, No. 90. sec. 4; Act 1878, p. 161, No. 101, sec. 2; Act 1880, p. 18, No. 11; D. sec. 783. SEC. 870. (Penalty on the treasurer in case of misdemeanor in office.) See D. 3783. D. sec. 783, 3784; Act 1855, p. 447. SEC, 871. (Penalty of auditor for misdemeanor.) See D. 196. Act 1855, p. 125. non-feasance SEC. 872. A failure on the part of any district, parish or State officer to perform the duties imposed upon him in this act, and in the manner Penalty for herein specified, is hereby declared a misdemeanor in office, upon con- in office. viction whereof such officer shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the parish prison for a term of not less than thirty days and not exceeding three months. All prosecutions for offences against this section shall have precedence over all cases before any justice of the peace, or parish or district court. D. sec. 1300; Act 1869, p. 175; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 7, No. 6. Stealing or falsifying records in courts. Defacing, alter ing, etc., of records. Stealing, destroying, etc., of notarial records, etc. Penalty in tries or statements. SEC. 873. Whoever shall feloniously take away, alter, falsify or otherwise avoid any record, writ, process or other proceeding in any court in this State, by means whereof any judgment shall be reversed, made void or not take effect; or who shall acknowledge, or procure tɔ be acknowledged, in any of the courts of this State, any recognizance, bail or judgment, in the name of any person not privy or consenting to the same, on conviction shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years. This section shall not extend to the acknowledgments of judgments by attorneys-at-law while in the due discharge of their duties. D. sec. 876; Act 1855, p. 130; Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 49, No. 8, sec. 1. SEC. 874.3 (Penalty for auditor contersigning bills beyond the amounts of stocks deposited.) See D. 290. D. sec. 292, 314; Act 1855, p. 214. SEC. 875. Whoever shall deface, alter, falsify or embezzle any record, enrollment, or matter or instrument recorded, or registry thereof, with intent to defraud, shall, upon conviction, pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at hard labor not more than two years. SEC. 876. Whoever shall steal, wilfully destroy or falsify any notarial record, act or document, shall be fined not exceeding two thousand nor less than one thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment at hard labor, or otherwise, not more than two nor less than one year. D. sec. 873, 2511; Act Ex. S. 1870, p. 119, No. 8, sec. 1. SEC. 877. Any banker, and any director, officer, agent or clerk of any banker or banking company, who shall make false statements or curred by bank entries in the books of such banker or banking company, or who shall officers if they make false en- exhibit false papers or practice wilful concealment of facts within his or their knowledge, with intent to deceive the board of currency or other person having lawful authority to examine, or to deceive the public as to the condition of such banker or banking company, as also any person who shall, with a view to defraud any such banker or banking company, knowingly draw or pay a check or checks without funds in the said company drawn upon, or to the embezzlement of any of the money or assets of said banker or banking company, by any clerk, officer or agent thereof, shall be subject, on conviction, to imprisonment in the penitentiary of this State for a term not less than one year nor more than three years. And when such false statements are made under oath, the person or persons shall be adjudged guilty of perjury and punished according to law. Penalty for false swearing. Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 129, No. 91. SEC. 878. (Judges, clerks, deputy clerks, etc., prohibited from practicing as attorneys-at-law.) See D. 117. D. sec. 116, 1960; Act 1861, p. 87. SEC. 879. (Penalty for falsely taking the oath or oaths of office.) See D. 2589. D. sec. 2556; Act 1868, p. 36. inal actions SEC. 880. Whoever shall be convicted of bribery or attempting to bribe any witness, or by any force, or threat, or intimidation of any Bribery, intimidation and perkind, or by persuasion, to prevent any witness in a criminal case, in suasion of witany of the stages of prosecution, from making the oath in any order nesses in crimto obtain a warrant of arrest to the final trial inclusive, from ap- punished. pearing or testifying as a witness, shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. D. sec. 857, 860, 3962; Act 1869, p. 33; Act 1873, p. 42, No. 4. SEC. 881. Any witness in a criminal proceeding, in any of its stages from making oath to obtain a warrant of arrest to the final trial inclusive, who shall fail to appear or give evidence when legally required to do so, by reason of being bribed or persuaded not to do so, upon due conviction thereof shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. C. P. 135; D. sec 478, 658, 3963. SEC. 882. (Refusing to deliver the office and books. Intrusion of office act.) See D. sec. 2599. Act 168, p. 199, sec. 7; Act 1873, p. 80, No. 41; Act 1874, p. 80, No. 43; SEC. 883. (Punishment of grand jurors for failure of duty.) D. sec, 2140. Act 1869, p. 78; D. 3964. SEC. 881. (Grand jurors witnesses on trial of one of their number for failure of duty.) See D. 2141. SEC. 885. (Judges to make special charge to grand jury.) See D. 3142. D. 3965. SEC. 886. It shall not be lawful for any bank to issue any note or other obligation for circulation except such as are payable in gold or silver on demand; and any officer of any bank issuing any note contrary to the intent and meaning of this section, and any director who shall by his vote authorize such issue, shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand, or imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Each director present shall be presumed to have voted for and authorized the issue, unless he make it appear by the minutes of the board that he voted against it. D. sec. 290, 292, 295, 314; Act 1855, p. 130. SEC. 887. It shall be unlawful for any individual or association of Witness pun ished for failing to testify. Penalty for banks issuing notes not pay able in specie. under five dol Issue of notes individuals, authorized or not authorized, to carry on the business of lars prohibited. banking, or for any body, politic or corporate, within the State of Louisiana, to make, emit, issue or cause to be issued, pay out or receive in payment, any bill of credit, bank note, promissory note, issued within or without the limits of the State of Louisiana, or any other instrument of writing, to be used as money or as a circulating medium, in a less amount or of a less denomination than five dollars. Any individual or association of individuals, or body politic or corporate, so offending, shall, on conviction, forfeit for each and every offence the sum of twenty dollars, for the use of the parish in which the cffence may have been committed. opinions. REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS. SEC. 888 to 901, inclusive, repealed. (Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 168, No. 101; ibid. p. 89, No. 58.) SEC. 902. Any planter, manager, overseer or other employer of Penalty for dis- laborers in this State, who shall, previous to the expiration of the charging laborers on account term of service of any laborer in their employ or under their control, of political discharge from their employ any laborer or laborers on account of their political opinions, or who shall attempt to control the suffrages or votes of such laborers, by any contract or agreement whatever, entered into at any time with such laborers, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of the district attorney for the judicial district, or the district attorney pro tempore of the parish in which such offender resides, to institute such suit in the name of the parish of the offender's residence, and he shall be entitled to twenty-five per cent. of the amount of all fines he may so recover as his fees in the case, and the balance shall be paid to the treasurer of the common school fund of such parish, for the use of common schools in such parish; and upon due conviction for any such offence, such offender shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year. Embezzlement ey. D. sec. 1163; Act 1868, p. 64. EMBEZZLEMENT AND BREACH OF TRUST. SEC. 903. Any officer of this State, or any other person who shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by way of of public mon investment in any kind of property or merchandise, or shall loan, with or without interest, or use in any other manner than as directed by law, any portion of public money which he is authorized to collect, or which may be entrusted to his safe-keeping or disbursement, or for any other purpose, shall be guilty of an embezzlement of the same The neglect or refusal to pay over, on demand, any public money in Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 28, No. 23, sec. 391; p. 128, No. 90, sec. 4; Act 1889, bezzling the funds of any parish or city. SEC. 904. The provisions and penalties of the preceding section shall extend to all officers or other persons, their aiders and abettors, Penalty for emwho shall embezzle the funds belonging to any parish or incorporated city, with the collection, safe-keeping or disbursement of which they may be entrusted or charged. D. sec. 2460, and breach of trust. SEC. 905. Any servant, clerk, broker, agent, consignee, trustee, attorney, mandatary, depositary, common carrier, bailee, curator, tes. Embezzlement tamentary executor, administrator, tutor, or any person holding any office or trust under the executive or judicial authority of this State, or in the service of any public or private corporation or company, who shall wrongfully use, dispose of, conceal or otherwise embezzle any money, bill, note, check, order, draft, bond, receipt, bill of lading, or any other proprerty which he shall have received for another, or for his employer, principal or bailor, or by virtue of his office, trust or employment, or which shall have been entrusted to his care, keeping or possession by another, or by his employer, principal or bailor, or by any court, corporation or company, upon conviction thereof, or of having aided or abetted in the commission thereof, before or after the fact, shall suffer imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding seven years nor less than one year. 33 A. 1291; 35 A. 823. indictments. SEC. 906. In prosecutions for embezzlement or larceny of bank notes, checks, bills of exchange, promissory notes, gold or silver Allegations of money, or of any other property of that kind, it shall not be necessary to set forth in the indictment a minute and detailed description thereof, but a general allegation of the amount and the things embezzled or stolen shall be sufficient; and evidence of larceny or embezzlement of a part shall warrant a conviction. SEC. 907. D. sec. 1056; 33】A. 1291; 32 A. 565; 35 A. 823. Any president, cashier, teller or clerk, or other officer or person employed in the service of any bank chartered by this State, |