Section 69-29-3 - Prohibition as to marking or branding of animals with intent to deprive owner of property

If any person, knowingly, shall mark or brand any animal, the property of another, with a mark or brand calculated or intended to designate ownership not that of the owner, without the consent of the owner, or without authority of law, and with intent to deprive the owner of his property, he shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned, in the penitentiary not more than three years, or be fined in a sum not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for a period not longer than one year, or both.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7 (16); 1857, ch. 64, art. 30; 1871, § 2508; 1880, § 2723; 1892, § 977; 1906, § 1053; Hemingway's 1917, § 781; 1930, § 797; 1942, § 2022.