The district attorneys of the several circuit court districts in the State of Mississippi shall furnish the superintendent of the Mississippi state penitentiary and the probation and parole board, within fifteen days after adjournment of each term of court, a written report on each person sentenced by the court for a term in the state penitentiary, showing therein a summary of facts of the case for which he is serving sentence, pertinent circumstances of his life, the antecedents of the violation of the law because of which he has been committed to the penitentiary, and his prior training and employment as available to the district attorney at the time of conviction, including prior convictions, results of mental examinations, and conditions under which arrest was made.
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