Whoever shall enter into a contract with the owner for a lease of lands in this State, witnessed by at least two disinterested witnesses, if such contract be verbal, or for cultivating lands on shares of crops and by virtue of the promises and agreement in such contract shall (a) fraudulently and with malicious intent to injure the owner secure from the owner the possession and occupation or right of possession and occupation of such lands or of money, supplies, fertilizers or anything of value or (b) shall, without just cause and with intent to cheat and defraud the owner, abandon such lands or refuse to enter into the possession and cultivation of such lands to the injury of the owner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not less than fifteen days nor more than thirty days.