Section 15-1-33 - Limitations applicable to actions and suits for penalty or forfeiture

All actions and suits for any penalty or forfeiture on any penal statute, brought by any person to whom the penalty or forfeiture is given, in whole or in part, shall be commenced within one year next after the offense was committed, and not after.Codes, 1857, ch. 57, art. 23; 1871, § 2167; 1880, § 2672; 1892, § 2741; 1906, § 3101; Hemingway's 1917, § 2465; 1930, § 2301; 1942, § 731.