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§§ 6990-6997 § 6990. Misconduct executing search warrant. Every peace officer who, in executing a search warrant, willfully exceeds his authority, or exercises it with unnecessary severity, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6991. Refusing to aid officer. Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid any officer in arresting any person or in retaking any person who has escaped from legal custody, or in executing any legal process, willfully neglects or refuses to aid such officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6992. Refusing to make arrest. Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded by any magistrate to arrest another person, willfully neglects or refuses so to do, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6993. Insurrection. Resisting execution of process. Every person who, after proclamation issued by the governor declaring any county to be in a state of insurrection, resists or aids in resisting the execution of process in the county declared to be in a state of insurrection, or who aids or attempts the rescue or escape of another from lawful custody or confinement, or who resists or aids in resisting a force ordered out by the governor to quell or suppress an insurrection, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two years.

§ 6994. Obstructing officer in duty. Every person who willfully delays or obstructs any public officer in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his office, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6995. Extra judicial oaths. Every person who takes an oath before an officer or person authorized to administer judicial oaths, except when such oath is required or authorized by law, or is required by the provisions of some contract as the basis of or in proof of a claim, or when the same has been agreed to be received by some person as proof of any fact, in the performance of any contract, obligation or duty, instead of other evidence, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6996. Administering same. Every officer or other person who administers an oath to another person, or who makes and delivers any certificate that another person has taken an oath, except when such oath is required by the provisions of some contract as a basis of or proof of a claim, or when the same has been agreed to be received by some person as proof of any fact in the performance of any contract, obligation or duty, instead of other evidence, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6997. Compounding crimes. Every person who, having knowledge of the actual commission of a crime or violation of statute takes any money or property of another or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement or promise therefor, upon any agreement or understanding, express or implied, to compound or conceal such crime or violation of statute, or to abstain from any prosecution therefor, or to withhold any evidence thereof, is punishable as follows:

1. By imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not (Breeding five years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, when the crime compounded is one punishable either by death or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.

2. By imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding six months, when the crime compounded was punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for any other term than for life.