If any person shall teach another the doctrines, principles, or tenets, or any of them, of polygamy; or shall endeavor so to do; or shall induce or persuade another by words or acts, or otherwise, to embrace or adopt polygamy, or to emigrate to any other state, territory, district, or country for the purpose of embracing, adopting, or practicing polygamy, or shall endeavor so to do, he shall, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or both.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency
§ 97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation
§ 97-29-3. Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil
§ 97-29-5. Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry
§ 97-29-7. Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward
§ 97-29-9. Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry
§ 97-29-13. Bigamy; definition; penalty
§ 97-29-15. Bigamy; exceptions
§ 97-29-19. Dead bodies; disinterment for sale or wantonness
§ 97-29-21. Dead bodies; buying or receiving
§ 97-29-23. Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes
§ 97-29-27. Incest; marriage within prohibited degrees
§ 97-29-29. Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate
§ 97-29-43. Polygamy; teaching of
§ 97-29-47. Profanity or drunkenness in public place
§ 97-29-55. Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage
§ 97-29-57. Stallion or jack not to be kept in public view or permitted to run at large