Furnishing drugs or liquor to a prisoner consists of directly or indirectly furnishing any narcotic drug or intoxicating liquor to any person held in lawful custody or confinement, unless such narcotic drug or intoxicating liquor is furnished pursuant to the direction or prescription of a regularly licensed physician attending such person or penal facility. Whoever commits furnishings [furnishing] drugs or liquor to a prisoner is guilty of a fourth degree felony. History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-22-13, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 22-13. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Nature and elements of offense of conveying contraband to state prisoner, 64 A.L.R.4th 902. Validity, construction, and application of state statue criminalizing possession of contraband by individual in penal or correctional institution, 45 A.L.R.5th 767. 72 C.J.S. Prisons § 75.
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