Section 17-23-3

Bribing or attempting to influence voter.

Any person who, by bribery or offering to bribe, or by any other corrupt means, attempts to influence any elector in giving his vote, or deter him from giving the same, or to disturb, or to hinder him in the free exercise of the right of suffrage, at any election, must, on conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00.

(Code 1876, §4292; Code 1886, §4187; Code 1896, §4694; Code 1907, §6790; Code 1923, §3908; Code 1940, T. 17, §304.)