If, at the time of impaneling the grand jury in any circuit court, the district attorney be absent or unable to perform his duties or, if after impaneling of the grand jury, the district attorney be absent or unable to perform his duties or be disqualified, the court shall forthwith appoint some attorney at law to act for the state in the place of the district attorney during his absence or inability or disqualification, and the person appointed shall have the power to discharge all the duties of the office during the absence or inability or disqualification of the district attorney, and shall receive a reasonable compensation for his services, to be allowed by the court and certified to the auditor, who shall issue his warrant therefor. Such allowance shall be deducted from the salary of the district attorney, and shall not exceed the amount of the salary of the district attorney for the number of days allotted by law for the term of the court at which such appointees shall act.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 25 - Public Officers and Employees; Public Records
Chapter 31 - District Attorneys
§ 25-31-6. Legal assistants to district attorney; qualifications; powers and duties; removal
§ 25-31-8. Office operating allowance
§ 25-31-13. District attorney to attend deliberations of grand jury
§ 25-31-15. District attorney to pass on public accounts
§ 25-31-17. District attorney to give opinions and prosecute public debtors
§ 25-31-19. To represent state tax and public service commissions
§ 25-31-21. Pro tempore appointment and compensation of appointees
§ 25-31-25. District attorney to institute and prosecute suits to vacate fraudulent conveyances
§ 25-31-27. Antitrust suits to require consent of Attorney General
§ 25-31-29. Reports on persons sentenced to state penitentiary
§ 25-31-39. Abolition of part-time district attorneys and part-time legal assistants; exception