Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully pack into any bag or bale of cotton any stone, wood, trash cotton, cottonseed, water or any matter or thing whatsoever or cause such packing to be done, with the intent and purpose of cheating or defrauding any person whomsoever in the sale of such cotton, or who shall exhibit or offer for sale any bag or bale of cotton so fraudulently packed, at the time of such exhibit or offer for sale any such bag or bale of cotton knowing it to be so fraudulently packed, shall on conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars nor less than twenty dollars and to be imprisoned for a term of not more than six months nor less than one month.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 13-2; 1952 Code Section 13-2; 1942 Code Section 1280; 1932 Code Section 1280; Cr. C. '22 Section 175; Cr. C. '12 Section 453; Cr. C. '02 Section 340; G. S. 2517; R. S. 279; 1875 (15) 976.