Mississippi Code
Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials
§ 97-11-35. Failure to return known offenders; purposeful avoidance of knowledge of offense

If any judge, justice court judge, constable, member of the board of supervisors, sheriff, or other peace officer, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to return any person committing any offense against the laws, committed in his view or knowledge, or of which he has any notice, or shall wilfully absent himself when such offense is being or is about to be committed, for the purpose of avoiding a knowledge of the same, he shall, on conviction, be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), and may, in the discretion of the court, be removed from office.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 11 - Offenses Involving Public Officials

§ 97-11-1. Alteration of records

§ 97-11-3. Attorney general and district attorney not to advise or defend criminals

§ 97-11-9. Bond; approving worthless official bond

§ 97-11-11. Bribery; offer, promise or gift of property to candidate, officer, agent or trustee to influence his action

§ 97-11-13. Bribery; penalty when officer, agent or trustee accepts bribe

§ 97-11-15. Circuit clerk; penalty for failure or refusal to send up certificate of appeal

§ 97-11-17. Clerk refusing to give certified copy of papers

§ 97-11-23. Drunkenness in office

§ 97-11-25. Embezzlement; officers, trustees and public employees converting property to own use

§ 97-11-27. Embezzlement; officers and public agents failing to deliver money, records, etc. to successor

§ 97-11-29. Embezzlement; accounts to be kept by all public officers; false entries, false certificates, loan of public funds and fraud on the treasury

§ 97-11-31. Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office

§ 97-11-33. Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered

§ 97-11-35. Failure to return known offenders; purposeful avoidance of knowledge of offense

§ 97-11-37. Failure to perform any duty

§ 97-11-39. Military officers; resigning to evade obedience to order prohibited

§ 97-11-41. Oath of office and bond; elected officials not to exercise duties before taking oath or giving bond, as required

§ 97-11-43. Railroad fares; government officials to pay same fare as general passengers; accepting and using free pass

§ 97-11-45. Tax collector and chancery clerk; failure to perform duty in respect to duplicate tax receipts

§ 97-11-47. Tax collector; failure to make settlement

§ 97-11-49. Tax collector; collecting privilege tax without issuing license

§ 97-11-51. Trustees of state institutions not to incur liability in excess of income

§ 97-11-53. Offer of inducements to influence public official's action on award of contracts or accomplishment of official acts