Mississippi Code — 99
Browse 494 sections in division 99 of the Mississippi code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 99-1-1. Applicability of statutes relating to procedure and appeals generally.
- § 99-1-3. Common-law offenses recognized.
- § 99-1-5. Time limitation on prosecutions.
- § 99-1-7. Time limitation on prosecutions; commencement of prosecution.
- § 99-1-9. Time limitation on prosecutions; additional year allowed in certain cases.
- § 99-1-11. Costs of search warrant and certain criminal prosecutions.
- § 99-1-17-99-1-21. Repealed.
- § 99-1-23. Appearance in court by means of closed circuit television or Web cam.
- § 99-1-25. Entrapment; affirmative defense to criminal prosecution; burden of proof.
- § 99-1-27. Victim of sex offenses not required to submit to truth telling devices as condition for proceeding with investigation of offense.
- § 99-1-29. Certain reproduction during discovery of property or material that constitutes child pornography prohibited.
- § 99-3-1. Who may make arrests.
- § 99-3-2. Authorization for federal law enforcement officers to make arrests.
- § 99-3-3. Time or place.
- § 99-3-5. All persons must aid arresting officer when commanded.
- § 99-3-7. When arrests may be made without warrant.
- § 99-3-9. Arrest of defendants in presence of court without process.
- § 99-3-11. Arresting officer or person may break into house.
- § 99-3-13. Officer may pursue and apprehend offender any place in state; jailing prisoner for safekeeping.
- § 99-3-15. Escaped offender may be pursued and retaken without warrant.
- § 99-3-17. Offender must be taken before proper officer without delay.
- § 99-3-18. Post-arrest release on written notice to appear at later date.
- § 99-3-19. Warrant good across county line.
- § 99-3-21. Justice of the peace may issue warrant for offender coming into his jurisdiction.
- § 99-3-23. No liability for legal arrest.
- § 99-3-25. Duty of officers to arrest gamblers, bucket-shop operators and futures dealers.
- § 99-3-27. Tramps; arrest by any person; proceedings.
- § 99-3-28. Teachers or sworn law enforcement officers charged with committing crime while in the performance of duties; certain procedural requirements to be met prior to issuance of arrest warrant.
- § 99-3-29. Perjury; court may commit wilful perjurer to prison immediately.
- § 99-3-31. Perjury; witnesses to be bound over for grand jury and trial.
- § 99-3-33. Perjury; court may detain documents.
- § 99-3-35. Reward for arrest and delivery of fleeing killer.
- § 99-3-37. Reward for arrest and delivery of fleeing killer; sheriff and other officers may receive.
- § 99-3-39. Rewards for information may be offered by counties and municipalities.
- § 99-3-41. HIV and AIDS testing of persons arrested for the commission of sex crimes against minors.
- § 99-3-43. Criminal history background check to be conducted by officers stopping persons to effectuate arrest.
- § 99-3-45. Requisite notice to be given to persons under the age of twenty-one released following arrest under certain circumstances.
- § 99-5-1. Form of bail; professional and soliciting bail agents to provide certain additional information; penalties.
- § 99-5-3. Form of bail; taken in open court by entry on minutes.
- § 99-5-5. Bonds to be made payable to state; effect; expiration and renewal.
- § 99-5-7. Fidelity or surety insurance company may give bail.
- § 99-5-9. Cash bail bond.
- § 99-5-11. All conservators of the peace may take recognizance or bond; certificate of default; alias warrant; when protection order registry must be checked; when bond not required.
- § 99-5-13. Court may make adjustments to excessive or insufficient bail.
- § 99-5-15. Duty of officer to release defendant from custody; approval of sureties.
- § 99-5-17. Sheriff to return bail-bond to clerk.
- § 99-5-19. Person who takes insufficient bail-bond, etc., to stand special bail.
- § 99-5-21. Bond good though it does not describe offense.
- § 99-5-23. Bonds, recognizances, etc., to be valid and binding whether or not properly taken or recited in return of officer.
- § 99-5-25. Forfeiture of bond; scire facias.
- § 99-5-27. Bail agent may arrest and surrender principal; return of defendant out on bond.
- § 99-5-29. Surety may cause arrest of principal by officer.
- § 99-5-31. Mittimus in bailable cases to fix the bail.
- § 99-5-33. Accused committed to prison if injured party is dangerously wounded.
- § 99-5-35. When prisoner charged with capital offense entitled to bail.
- § 99-5-37. Domestic violence, aggravated domestic violence, aggravated stalking, knowing violation of bond or knowing violation of domestic abuse protection order; required appearance before judge; considerations; conditions.
- § 99-5-38. Use of global positioning monitoring system as condition of bond for defendant in domestic violence case; definitions; information to be provided victim.
- § 99-5-39. Appearance bond as condition of any court ordered supervision; defendant’s failure to appear as grounds for forfeiture of bond.
- § 99-7-1. Indictment may charge offenses according to common law or statute.
- § 99-7-2. When two or more offenses may be charged in single indictment; trial, verdicts, and sentences.
- § 99-7-3. Formal or technical words not necessary.
- § 99-7-5. Allegations of time; want of perfect venue.
- § 99-7-7. How instruments pleaded.
- § 99-7-9. Presentment; entry on minutes of court; warrant to issue; copy of indictment to be served on defendant; informing victim as to status of charge.
- § 99-7-11. Concurrence of twelve grand jurors required for finding.
- § 99-7-13. Secret record book; accused may be tried on copy made from record book.
- § 99-7-15. Authority to inspect indictment limited to certain officers until arrest made.
- § 99-7-17. Dilatory pleas; must be verified by oath.
- § 99-7-19. Dilatory pleas; amendment of indictment or information.
- § 99-7-21. Demurrers; when filed; amendment of indictment.
- § 99-7-23. Motions to quash.
- § 99-7-25. Amendment where name of unknown defendant is discovered.
- § 99-7-27. Gambling or gaming.
- § 99-7-29. Intoxicating beverage offenses.
- § 99-7-31. Terms of indictment for larceny or embezzlement of money.
- § 99-7-33. Libel.
- § 99-7-35. Lotteries.
- § 99-7-37. Murder and manslaughter.
- § 99-7-39. Perjury.
- § 99-7-41. Perjury; subornation of perjury.
- § 99-9-1. Capias or alias issued for arrest on indictment.
- § 99-9-3. Corporations; summons issued on indictment; execution on judgment.
- § 99-9-5. Corporations; summons issued to other counties.
- § 99-9-7. Corporations; order to appear mailed and published if corporation not found; appearance and plea entered; execution.
- § 99-9-9. Corporations; proceeding before justice of the peace.
- § 99-9-11. Subpoenas for witnesses.
- § 99-9-13. Issuance of subpoena for witness to give deposition for use in another state.
- § 99-9-15. Subpoena to compel attendance of witness from nearby county during term.
- § 99-9-17. Service of subpoena.
- § 99-9-19. Attachment for non-appearing subpoenaed witness.
- § 99-9-21. Subpoenaed witness to attend until discharged; scire facias for defaulters.
- § 99-9-23. Witness subpoenaed in vacation to appear before grand jury.
- § 99-9-25. Attachment of subpoenaed witnesses failing to appear before grand jury.
- § 99-9-27. Uniform witness attendance law; short title.
- § 99-9-29. Definitions.
- § 99-9-31. Summoning witnesses in this state to testify in another state.
- § 99-9-33. Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state.
- § 99-9-35. Exemption from arrest and service of process.
- § 99-9-37. Uniformity of interpretation.
- § 99-11-1. Jurisdiction of crimes generally.
- § 99-11-3. Local jurisdiction; venue; venue regarding indictments returned by state grand jury [Subsection (2) repealed effective July 1, 2024].
- § 99-11-5. Extent of criminal jurisdiction of State of Mississippi.
- § 99-11-7. Concurrent jurisdiction with Arkansas.
- § 99-11-9. Jurisdiction of paternity proceedings.
- § 99-11-11. Embezzlement.
- § 99-11-13. Kidnapping.
- § 99-11-15. Offenses commenced out of and consummated in state.
- § 99-11-17. Offenses commenced in and consummated out of state.
- § 99-11-19. Offenses committed partly in one county and partly in another.
- § 99-11-21. Occurrence in one jurisdiction causing death in another.
- § 99-11-23. Stolen property carried into state or carried from one county to another.
- § 99-11-25. Aiding, encouraging or causing commission of crime within state by person while out of state.
- § 99-11-27. Former acquittal or conviction in another jurisdiction.
- § 99-11-29. Acquittal for variance between indictment and proof or on exception to form.
- § 99-11-31. Acquittal on the merits.
- § 99-11-33. Acquittal or conviction by justice of the peace for misdemeanor not to bar prosecution for felony.
- § 99-11-35. No acquittal for defects of form.
- § 99-11-37. Cognizance and jurisdiction of crimes committed in particular district in Harrison County or Hinds County.
- § 99-11-39. Transmittal of records on change of venue or transfer or removal of trial in Harrison County or Hinds County.
- § 99-13-1. Definition of “person with an intellectual disability.”
- § 99-13-3. Disposition of offender who is insane or a person with an intellectual disability brought before conservator of the peace.
- § 99-13-5. Disposition of an accused who grand jury has found to be insane or a person with an intellectual disability.
- § 99-13-7. Acquittal for insanity; presumption of continuing mental illness and dangerousness of person acquitted on ground of insanity; challenge to presumption; hearing; right to counsel.
- § 99-13-9. Acquittal on the ground of having an intellectual disability.
- § 99-13-11. Mental examination of person charged with felony; cost.
- § 99-15-1. Conservators of peace; defined.
- § 99-15-3. Conservators of peace; power to take bonds and recognizances; forfeiture.
- § 99-15-5. Conservators of the peace; arrest and commitment of offenders.
- § 99-15-7. Conservators of the peace; prosecutor and witnesses may be required to give bond.
- § 99-15-9. Conservators of the peace; subpoenas.
- § 99-15-11. Conservators of the peace; search warrant for stolen property.
- § 99-15-13. Repealed.
- § 99-15-15. Appointment of counsel for indigents.
- § 99-15-17. Compensation of counsel; amount.
- § 99-15-18. Compensation of counsel in post-conviction relief cases involving the death penalty; submission of interim invoice.
- § 99-15-19. Compensation of counsel; reimbursement of county in certain cases.
- § 99-15-21. Compensation of counsel; method of payment.
- § 99-15-23. Plea entered when defendant stands mute.
- § 99-15-24. Where to make motions or enter guilty pleas.
- § 99-15-25. Entry of guilty pleas in vacation; sentencing; records.
- § 99-15-26. Dismissal of action upon successful completion of certain court-imposed conditions.
- § 99-15-27. Copy of indictment and special venire to be given defendant in capital cases.
- § 99-15-28. Accused entitled to copy of affidavit or indictment without cost.
- § 99-15-29. Continuance; application.
- § 99-15-31. Continuance; capital cases.
- § 99-15-33. Continuance; admission of facts in absence of witness.
- § 99-15-35. Change of venue; how need shown; grounds.
- § 99-15-37. Change of venue; transfer of records to removal court.
- § 99-15-39. Change of venue; defendant to be tried on copy of indictment; specific objections to defects in transcript required.
- § 99-15-41. Change of venue; correcting errors in record.
- § 99-15-43. Change of venue; capital cases.
- § 99-15-45. Change of venue; costs paid by county from which venue is changed.
- § 99-15-47. Joint indictments; severance in felonies.
- § 99-15-49. Joint indictments; severance in misdemeanors.
- § 99-15-51. Dismissal of petty misdemeanor charge upon satisfaction of injured party.
- § 99-15-53. Prosecutions not compromised or nol prossed without consent of court, or dismissed, except at defendant’s cost.
- § 99-15-55. Trial where it appears that accused is only guilty of misdemeanor.
- § 99-15-57. Relief for certain persons who pled guilty within six months prior to March 31, 1983.
- § 99-15-59. Expunction of misdemeanor charges.
- § 99-15-101. Citation of Sections 99-15-101 through 99-15-127.
- § 99-15-103. Definitions.
- § 99-15-105. Establishment of pretrial intervention program; role of district attorney; application.
- § 99-15-107. Ineligibility for intervention.
- § 99-15-109. Conditions when intervention is appropriate.
- § 99-15-111. Information required from offender prior to admittance into program.
- § 99-15-113. Recommendations of victim and law enforcement agency as to offender’s admittance into program.
- § 99-15-115. Waiver and agreements required of offender who enters program.
- § 99-15-117. Agreement between district attorney and offender outlining terms of program; approval by court.
- § 99-15-119. Written reports retained for all offenders accepted into program; information furnished to Mississippi Justice Information Center.
- § 99-15-121. Restitution required prior to completion of program.
- § 99-15-123. Disposition of charges upon successful completion of program; violation of program agreement by offender; expunction of record.
- § 99-15-125. Law enforcement officer precluded from referring to program as inducement to any statement, confession or waiver by offender; exception.
- § 99-15-127. Department of Corrections, Division of Community Corrections to support program.
- § 99-17-1. Indictments to be tried within 270 days of arraignment.
- § 99-17-3. Peremptory challenges; number allowed.
- § 99-17-5. Peremptory challenges; joint defendant must agree.
- § 99-17-7. Interpreters.
- § 99-17-9. Trial in the absence of accused.
- § 99-17-11. Only two counsel to a side heard.
- § 99-17-13. Variance between indictment and proof; amendment of record and indictment; continuance.
- § 99-17-15. Variance between indictment and proof; amendment of record and indictment; order for amendment.
- § 99-17-17. Joint defendants are competent witnesses for one another in separate trials.
- § 99-17-19. Assaults; insulting words admissible.
- § 99-17-20. Capital murder or other crimes punishable by death.
- § 99-17-21. Bribery; certain proof not necessary.
- § 99-17-23. Dueling; offender compelled to testify against another.
- § 99-17-25. Gambling and futures contracts; state not confined to proof of single violation.
- § 99-17-27. Gambling and futures contracts; witness compelled to testify; immunity granted; penalty for refusing.
- § 99-17-29. Lotteries; purchaser of ticket compelled to testify against seller.
- § 99-17-31. Offenses affecting legislature; witness denied privilege against self-incrimination.
- § 99-17-33. Perjury; no variance between “sworn” and “affirmed.”
- § 99-17-35. Instructions to jury.
- § 99-17-37. Papers may be carried out by jury.
- § 99-17-39. Bills of exceptions; duty of judge to sign.
- § 99-17-41. Bills of exceptions; when tendered and signed; incapacity of judge.
- § 99-17-43. Bills of exceptions; attorneys may sign if judge refuses.
- § 99-17-45. Bills of exception; amendment.
- § 99-17-47. New trials; terms directed by court; number limited.
- § 99-17-49. New trials; grant or refusal assignable for error.
- § 99-18-1. Office of State Public Defender created; personnel; funding sources; qualifications, duties, removal of state defender; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund.
- § 99-18-3. Capital Defense Counsel Division created; personnel; appointment to office; qualifications; removal.
- § 99-18-5. Purpose of Capital Defense Counsel Division.
- § 99-18-7. Duties of division; attorneys appointed to office to be full time.
- § 99-18-9. Compensation.
- § 99-18-11. Office hours of operation.
- § 99-18-13. Powers and duties of State Defender.
- § 99-18-15. Director to keep a docket of all indicted death eligible cases in Mississippi.
- § 99-18-17. Conflict of interest; employment of qualified private counsel; payment of fees and expenses; Capital Defense Counsel Fund.
- § 99-18-19. Repealed.
- § 99-19-1. Change of law not to affect prosecution or punishment of crime committed prior to change.
- § 99-19-3. Convictions obtained only by verdict or guilty plea; no punishment without legal conviction; waiver of right to trial and payment of fine in lieu thereof without appearing in court for traffic, motor vehicle, and game and fish misdemeanor violations; definitions.
- § 99-19-5. Findings of jury.
- § 99-19-7. Verdict as to some, disagreement as to other defendants.
- § 99-19-9. No special form of verdict required.
- § 99-19-11. Verdict may be reformed at the bar if informal or defective.
- § 99-19-12. Repealed.
- § 99-19-13. Mississippi Sentencing Disparity Task Force; purpose; composition.
- § 99-19-15. Sentence; felon under age sixteen.
- § 99-19-17. Repealed.
- § 99-19-18. Mandatory minimum sentence for embezzlement or other unlawful conversion of public funds.
- § 99-19-19. Repealed.
- § 99-19-20. Sentence; imposition of fine; payment; imprisonment for nonpayment; indigent defendants.
- § 99-19-20. 1
- § 99-19-21. Sentence; prison terms to run consecutively or concurrently in discretion of court; sentence for felony committed while on parole, probation, earned-release or post-release supervision, or suspended sentence.
- § 99-19-23. Sentence; credit for time of prisoner’s pre-trial or pre-appeal confinement.
- § 99-19-25. Sentence; circuit and county judges and justice courts may suspend in misdemeanor cases; suspension of sentence or execution of sentence subsequent to original sentencing authorized under certain circumstances.
- § 99-19-27. Convicts who violate terms of suspended sentence or parole are subject to arrest.
- § 99-19-29. Vacation of suspended sentence and annulment of conditional pardon for violation of terms.
- § 99-19-31. Penalty where none fixed elsewhere by statute.
- § 99-19-32. Fines and assessments upon persons convicted of offenses punishable by imprisonment for more than one year; deposit in Criminal Justice Fund.
- § 99-19-33. Where penalty modified milder penalty may be imposed.
- § 99-19-35. Person convicted of certain crimes not to practice medicine or dentistry, or hold office.
- § 99-19-37. Restoration of right of suffrage to World War veterans.
- § 99-19-39. Detention of convict pending appeal.
- § 99-19-41. Delivery of appellant to county where supreme court is held.
- § 99-19-42. Post-conviction proceeding; time for hearing and return to Department of Corrections.
- § 99-19-43. Duty of judge when convict sentenced to penitentiary.
- § 99-19-45. Commitment to penitentiary; duties of clerks of circuit court; fees.
- § 99-19-47. Commitment to penitentiary; form.
- § 99-19-48. Placement of person on probation; form for report.
- § 99-19-49. Repealed.
- § 99-19-51. Manner of execution of death sentence; execution team; confidentiality of identities of members of execution team, supplier of lethal injection chemicals and witnesses listed in Section 99-19-55(2); immunity.
- § 99-19-53. Execution of death sentence; state executioner.
- § 99-19-55. Execution of death sentence; procedure; witnesses; certificate of execution; disposition of body.
- § 99-19-57. Execution of death sentence; suspension of sentence when offender is pregnant or a person with mental illness.
- § 99-19-59. Repealed.
- § 99-19-61. Cost of trial and/or execution of one committing crime within confines of penitentiary, or of inmate committing crime outside bounds of penitentiary.
- § 99-19-63. Repealed.
- § 99-19-65. Collection of fines, penalties, and list reported.
- § 99-19-67. Remedy against officer, in reference to fines.
- § 99-19-69. Liability of officers for default as to fines.
- § 99-19-71. Expunction of misdemeanor conviction of first offender upon petition; expunction of certain felony convictions upon petition.
- § 99-19-72. Filing fee for petition to expunge certain first offenses; distribution of fees collected.
- § 99-19-73. Standard State monetary assessment for certain violations, misdemeanors and felonies; suspension or reduction of assessment prohibited; collection and deposit of assessments; refunds.
- § 99-19-75. Assessment on certain offenses against children to be deposited in Mississippi Children’s Trust Fund.
- § 99-19-77. Assessment against convicted criminal defendants to cover costs of investigations; use of assessments.
- § 99-19-81. Sentencing of habitual criminals to maximum term of imprisonment.
- § 99-19-83. Sentencing of habitual criminals to life imprisonment.
- § 99-19-84. Electronic monitoring as condition of probation for offense requiring registration as a sex offender; rules and regulations.
- § 99-19-85. Governor’s pardoning power unaffected.
- § 99-19-87. Punishment by death unaffected.
- § 99-19-101. Jury to determine punishment in capital cases in separate sentencing proceeding; aggravating and mitigating circumstances to be considered.
- § 99-19-103. Instructions; aggravating circumstances shall be designated by jury in writing upon recommending death; effect of jury’s failure to agree on punishment.
- § 99-19-105. Review by State Supreme Court of imposition of death penalty.
- § 99-19-106. Date of execution of death sentence.
- § 99-19-107. Life sentence to be imposed if death penalty held to be unconstitutional.
- § 99-19-151. Short title.
- § 99-19-153. Declaration of purpose.
- § 99-19-155. Definitions.
- § 99-19-157. Victim impact statement.
- § 99-19-159. Victim impact statement to be made available to defense and to prosecution; statement as factor in sentencing; cooperation of victim not mandatory.
- § 99-19-161. Notice to victim prior to sentencing.
- § 99-19-201. Definitions.
- § 99-19-203. Testing of persons convicted of sex offenses for HIV and AIDS.
- § 99-19-301. Penalties subject to enhancement; definitions.
- § 99-19-303. Notice of enhancement.
- § 99-19-305. Sentencing proceedings; required findings for enhanced penalty.
- § 99-19-307. Amount penalty may be enhanced.
- § 99-19-309. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly not abridged by Sections 99-19-301 through 99-19-307.
- § 99-19-351. Penalties subject to enhancement.
- § 99-19-353. Notice of enhancement.
- § 99-19-355. Sentencing proceedings; required findings for enhanced penalty.
- § 99-19-357. Amount penalty may be enhanced.
- § 99-19-401. Enhanced penalty; offenses subject to enhancement of penalty; applicable crimes during which instrumentalities were initially obtained.
- § 99-20-1. Short title; purpose.
- § 99-20-3. Participation in community service restitution program.
- § 99-20-5. Qualifications for participation in program.
- § 99-20-7. Determining persons eligible for participation; review of district attorney’s files.
- § 99-20-9. Notification of eligible persons; request for sentence to program; recommendations of victim.
- § 99-20-11. Agreement to and acceptance of sentence by defendant; conditional discharge.
- § 99-20-13. Participant informed of possible criminal sentence; consequences of failure to perform community service sentence.
- § 99-20-15. Written agreement between program participant and department of corrections.
- § 99-20-17. Failure to complete sentence; consequences.
- § 99-20-19. Availability of program.
- § 99-21-1. Warrant for arrest of fugitives.
- § 99-21-3. Bail.
- § 99-21-5. Bonds to be filed with circuit clerk.
- § 99-21-7. Committing officer to notify governor.
- § 99-21-9. Appearance before circuit court.
- § 99-21-11. Person causing arrest liable for costs; deposit or security may be required.