Kentucky · KRS 437.030
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“Any person who, in this state, challenges another to fight with any deadly weapon, in or out of this state, and any person who accepts the challenge, shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500) and imprisoned for not less than six (6) nor more than twelve (12) months.”
“Any person who knowingly carries or delivers such a challenge in this state, or consents in this state to be a second to either party shall be fined one hundred dollars ($100) and imprisoned for thirty (30) days.”
This section doesn't print a penalty of its own. Other parts of the Kentucky Revised Statutes and Constitution may set one; we haven't looked them up, so we don't state one here.
“Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1269.”
The earliest year in this note is 1942. That's the earliest year the note prints. It doesn't establish when this wording was enacted, took effect or first appeared.
Our reading
In Kentucky the challenge alone is the crime. Challenging someone, from inside the state, to fight with a deadly weapon, whether the fight would happen in or out of the state, brings a $500 fine and six to twelve months in jail, and accepting carries the same penalty. Knowingly carrying or delivering such a challenge in Kentucky, or consenting in Kentucky to serve as a second, has a stated penalty of $100 and thirty days.
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