TO REPEAL SECTION TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE, OF CHAPTER Be it enreted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. That section 8 of an act entitled "An act to amend chapter 24 of the General Laws of the State of Colorado, entitled 'Criminal Code,'" and approved March Ist, 1881, the same being section 285 of chapter 25 of the General Statutes of the State of Colorado, be, and the same is, hereby repealed. Approved April 6, 1885. CRIMINAL CODE. (H. B. 198.) ΑΝ ACT TO PUNISH THE FRAUDULENT GIVING OF CHECKS OR DRAFTS UPON Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of giving fraudulent SECTION I. If any person shall, with intent to cheat Penalty for and defraud another, give any check or draft upon any Bank check. bank, whether the same shall be organized under State laws or laws of the United States, in which such person shall not have sufficient funds, in payment of any debt in whatsoever manner contracted, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred ($200) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than three months, nor more than one year, or both. Approved March 25, 1885. CRIMINAL CODE. (H. B. 233.) AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF Penalty for carrying concealed weapons. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. Section one hundred and eighty two (182), Approved April 10, 1885. H. B. 235.) AN ACT TO PUNISH THE ENTICING OF UNMARRIED FEMALES UNDER TWENTY Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of females to SECTION I. If any person or persons shall entice any Penalty for unmarried female of previous chaste reputation, under the enticing chaste age of twenty years, to any dance house, tippling house, or improper places. other place of low resort, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned in a county jail not less than thirty days, nor more than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the court. Approved April 4, 1885. CRIMINAL CODE. (H. B. 284.) AN ACT RELATING TO THE CRIME OF MALICIOUS MISCHIEF. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: show malice animal. SECTION I. It shall not be necessary to show, on the Not necessary to trial of any criminal offense for malicious mischief, injury, against owner or or trespass to property, that the offense was committed from malice, conceived against the owner of the property, or against the animal or property injured or destroyed; but if the act was wrongfully and wilfully done, it shall be inferred and held that it was done maliciously. Approved April 4, 1885. (H. B. 339.) AN ACT CONCERNING OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALITY. Penalty for exhibiting or selling obscene books. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION I. Whoever exhibits, lends, gives away, sells, or offers to exhibit, lend, give away, or sell; or in any manner publishes, or offers to publish, or has in his possession, for any such purpose, any obscene, lewd, or indecent, or lascivious book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, print, picture, writing, advertisement, circular, or other representation, figure, or image, on, or of paper, or other material; or any cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral or indecent nature; or any drug, or medicine, or instrument, for procuring abortion, or for self-pollution, or for preventing conception; or any newspaper, or magazine, containing pictures of nude, or partly nude, men or women, or pictures of men or women in indecent attitudes or positions; or which publishes, by pictures or descriptions, indecent or immoral details of crime, vice or immorality, calculated to corrupt public morals, or to offend common decency, or to make vice and crime, immorality and licentiousness attractive, or advertises the same for sale; or writes, or prints, or causes to be sold, or written, or printed, any card, circular, letter, hand bill, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice thereof, of any kind; or gives information orally, or otherwise, stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means, any of the articles or things hereinbefore mentioned can be purchased or otherwise obtained, or are manufactured, or published; or manufactures, draws, or prints, or in anywise makes, with intent to exhibit, sell, lend, or give away, or have exhibited, sold, loaned, or given away, any such articles or things, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, with costs of court, or imprisoned in the county jail for not less than one month, nor more than one year, or both; but nothing in this act shall be construed to effect teaching in regularly chartered medical colleges, or the publication, sale and use of standard medical books, or the practice of regular practioners of medicine, or druggists in their legitimate business. SEC. 2. positing obscene post office. Whoever deposits in any postoffice within this Penalty for deState, or places in charge of any person to be carried or books in the conveyed, any of the articles or things named in the preceding section; or any card, circular, letter, hand bill, book, pamphlet, notice, or advertisement of any kind of or concerning such articles or things; or give oral or other information stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means such articles or things can be purchased or otherwise obtained; or knowingly or wilfully receives the same with intent to carry or convey, or knowingly carries. or conveys the same in any manner, except in the United States mail, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned at hard labor in the penitentiary not less than one month, nor more than one year, or both. may be issued... SEC. 3. A warrant to search for such articles or things Search warrant. named in section one may be issued by any justice of the peace, like other search warrants, and when any of them are found by the officer serving it, they shall be brought before the justice and kept by him, or the officer, to be used as evidence in any case that may arise concerning them or any person connected therewith, and, on conviction of such offender, or, if such articles shall be found to be such as are prohibited by the provisions of this act, said articles shall be destroyed by order of the court trying the case. Approved April 9, 1885. CRIMINAL CODE. (H. B. 388.) AN ACT TO PREVENT INJURY TO CAVES, AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of SECTION 1. Any person, or persons, who shall, at any Penalty for retime, break any lock, fastening, door, or structure, designed moving specimens from caves. |