PUNISHMENT FOR LIBEL.

18-4802. Punishment for libel. Every person who wilfully, and with a malicious intent to injure another, publishes, or procures to be published, any libel, is punishable by fine not exceeding $5000, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months. History: [18-4802, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 944.]