Every person who shall mingle any poison with any food, drink, or medicine with intent to kill or injure any human being, or who shall wilfully poison any well, spring, or reservoir of water, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (35); 1857, ch. 64, art. 214; 1871, § 2670; 1880, § 2937; 1892, § 1255; 1906, § 1331; Hemingway's 1917, § 1064; 1930, § 1095; 1942, § 2328.
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