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Suicide. CHAPTER 16.

TREASON AND MISPRISION OF TREASOX.

§ 7043. Treason defined. Witnesses. Punishment. Every person owing allegiance to this state who levies war against it, or adheres to its enemies or gives them aid or comfort within this state or elsewhere, is guilty of treason. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the evidence of two witnesses to the same overt act, or his confession thereof in open court. Every person guilty of treason shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by death, or, at the discretion of the court, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than five years and be forever incapable of holding any office under this state.

§ 7044. Misprision of treason. Every person owing allegiance to this state and having knowledge of any treason against it, who conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose the same and make the same known to the governor or the attorney general, or to some judge of this state or of some district thereof, or to the state's attorney of some county, or a magistrate thereof, is guilty of misprision of treason and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years.

CHAPTER 17.

SUICIDE.

§ 7045. Suicide defined. Suicide is the intentional taking of a one's own life.

§ 7046. Attempting suicide. Every person who, with intent to take his own life, commits upon himself any act dangerous to human life, or which if committed upon or toward another person and followed by death as a consequence, would render the perpetrator chargeable with homicide, is guilty of attempting suicide.

§ 7047 Advising and aiding suicide. Every person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking his own life, is guilty of aiding suicide.

§ 7048. Furnishing weapon or drug. Every person who willfully furnishes another person with any deadly weapon or poisonous drug, knowing that such person intends to use such weapon or drug in taking his own life, is guilty of aiding suicide, if such person thereafter employs such instrument or drug in taking his own life.

§ 7049. Aiding attempt. Every person who willfully aids another in attempting to take his own life, in any manner which by the preceding sections would have amounted to aiding suicide if the person assisted had actually taken his own life, is guilty of aiding an attempt at suicide.