Section 17-23-8

Disturbing elector on election day.

Any person who, on election day, disturbs or prevents, or attempts to prevent, any elector from freely casting his ballot must, on conviction, be fined not less than $500.00 nor more than $1,000.00, and also sentenced to hard labor for the county, or imprisoned in the county jail for not less than six months nor more than one year.

(Code 1876, §4294; Code 1886, §4189; Code 1896, §4696; Code 1907, §6792; Code 1923, §3910; Code 1940, T. 17, §306.)