Section 97-23-9 - Cotton; seed-cotton not sold at night

Any person who shall buy, sell, or exchange or receive or deliver, in pursuance of any contract of sale or exchange, any cotton in the seed or ginned and not baled, between sunset on one day and sunrise on the next, shall, upon conviction, be punished as for a misdemeanor.Codes, 1880, § 2763; 1892, § 1012; 1906, § 1089; Hemingway's 1917, § 815; 1930, § 838; 1942, § 2064.