At any auction sale of goods, wares or merchandise held by an itinerant merchant holding a license under this article no person shall act as a by-bidder, capper or booster or offer or make or announce or receive false bids on any thing or article offered for sale at such auction or secretly buy anything at any such auction sale in order in any manner to stimulate such sales deceit or misrepresentation in the making of bids or offers for such purchase of anything so offered for sale at such auction.
(1965 Code Sec. 17-5.)