Any officer, agent, or servant of a carrier who with intent to defraud issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable bill for goods, knowing that a former negotiable bill for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncancelled, shall be guilty of a crime and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both.