TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 50

MAYHEM

18-5001.  Mayhem defined. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless, or cuts out or disables the tongue, puts out an eye, slits the nose, ear or lip, is guilty of mayhem.

History:

[18-5001, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 946.]