The term 'crime,' when used in any statute, shall mean any violation of law liable to punishment by criminal prosecution.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 8 (26); 1857, ch. 64, art. 349; 1871, § 2856; 1880, § 3105; 1892, § 1502; 1906, § 1576; Hemingway's 1917, § 1343; 1930, § 1366; 1942, § 674.
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