Any person who shall purchase or receive in pawn or pledge any military property of the state or of the United States shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months or both such fine and imprisonment.

[ 1943 c 130 s 87; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 8603-87. Cf. 1917 c 107 s 68.]