Every man and woman living together in an open state of adultery or fornication shall be fined not exceeding $500, or confined in county jail not exceeding one year. Punishment doubled for second offense and trebled for third. Intermarriage of parties and payment of costs will suspend the prosecution.

Offense may be proved by circumstances raising the presumption of co-habitation and unlawful intimacy.

R. S., ch. 38, sec. 11.

Sec. 12.