If any officer, receiver or agent of any railroad company having any portion of its tracks in this State shall refuse or neglect to appear before the department, or the person appointed by it, or to answer any question put to him as provided for in Section 12-37-1660 or submit the books and papers aforesaid for examination as provided in said section, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon indictment and conviction therefor in the court of general sessions for any county, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars and the costs of prosecution and confined in the jail of the county until he answers all questions which may be put to him by the department and such fine and costs be paid.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 65-1677; 1952 Code Section 65-1677; 1942 Code Section 1721; 1932 Code Section 1721; Cr. C. '22 Section 667; Cr. C. '12 Section 690; Cr. C. '02 Section 493; R. S. 378; 1881 (17) 902.