Section 97-7-71 - Advocacy of violent overthrow of constitution or government; punishment

Any person who advocates in writing or in print or verbally, or otherwise, the overthrow of the constitution or government of the United States or the constitution or the government of the State of Mississippi, by violence, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and on conviction be imprisoned in the state penitentiary not less than three and not more than twenty years.Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. § 1142f; 1930, § 1162; 1942, § 2399; Laws, 1920, ch. 216.