TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 32

FALSIFYING, MUTILATING OR CONCEALING PUBLIC RECORDS OR WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS

18-3206.  Mutilating written instruments. A person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one (1) nor more than five (5) years.

History:

[18-3206, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 911.]