If any person shall wilfully alter or destroy any will or codicil without the consent of the party making the same, or shall wilfully secrete the same after the death of the testator shall be known to him, the person so offending, on conviction, shall be fined, or imprisoned in the county jail, or both; or shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding two years.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 239; 1871, § 2700; 1880, § 2973; 1892, § 1327; 1906, § 1399; Hemingway's 1917, § 1142; 1930, § 1174; 1942, § 2417.
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