If any officer, agent, clerk, or employee of any railroad company, shall fraudulently embezzle, dispose of, or convert to his own use any passenger railroad ticket or tickets, whether such tickets be fully prepared for use or not, or who shall use such tickets which have been once used, and which have come to his hands or charge by virtue of his office or employment, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.Codes, 1892, § 1067; 1906, § 1145; Hemingway's 1917, § 873; 1930, § 898; 1942, § 2124.
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