4-40-10: [Newspapers; abstraction, mutilation or destruction; penalty.]

Any person who shall willfully abstract, destroy, mutilate or deface any number or volume of such newspapers purchased in pursuance of Sections 4-40-7 and 4-40-8 NMSA 1978, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or imprisonment [imprisoned] in the county jail not more than six months, or [punished] both by such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.