Section 17-16-53

Failure to place candidate's name, etc., on ballot.

Any officer of the state or of any county or municipality whose duty it is by law to prepare and have printed ballots for any election authorized by law to be held, and any executive officer or member of a political party charged with the duty of preparing and having printed ballots for any primary election authorized by the rules and regulations of said political party to be held, who shall wilfully or negligently fail to have printed on said ballots, as required by law or the rules and regulations of the political party holding the election, the names of all persons entitled to be printed thereon and all issues entitled to be printed thereon and entitled to be submitted to a vote, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000.00, and may be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than one year.

(Code 1907, §6825; Code 1923, §3948; Code 1940, T. 17, §402.)