If any officer shall approve any official bond, knowing or having good reason to believe the sureties to be insufficient, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, the fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, and the imprisonment not to exceed six months in the county jail.Codes, 1880, § 406; 1892, § 1234; 1906, § 1310; Hemingway's 1917, § 1043; 1930, § 1075; 1942, § 2308.
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