2016 Idaho Statutes
Title 18 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Chapter 67 - COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY
Section 18-6715 - FORGERY OF TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.

18-6715. Forgery of telegraphic messages. Every person who knowingly and willfully sends by telegraph to any person a false or forged message purporting to be from such telegraph office, or from any other person, or who willfully delivers or causes to be delivered to any person any such message falsely purporting to have been received by telegraph, or who furnishes or conspires to furnish, or causes to be furnished to any agent, operator, or employee, to be sent by telegraph or to be delivered, any such message, knowing the same to be false or forged with the intent to deceive, injure, or defraud another, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not to exceed five (5) years, or by a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

History:

[18-6715, added 1980, ch. 326, sec. 2, p. 843.]