If any person shall, willfully and intentionally, break down, pull down, or otherwise destroy or injure, in whole or in part, any public jail or other place of confinement, every person so offending is guilty of a public offense proportionate to the value of the loss resulting therefrom, and in no event less than a gross misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 493; RL § 6758; NCL § 10440] — (NRS A 1967, 526)