Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any false entry, or shall falsely alter any entry made in any book of accounts kept by any moneyed corporation within this state, or in any book of accounts kept by any corporation or its officers, and to be delivered or intended to be delivered to any person dealing with such corporation, by which any pecuniary obligation, claim, or credit shall be or shall purport to be discharged, diminished, increased, created, or in any manner affected, shall be guilty of forgery.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 97-21-1. Account books kept in public offices
§ 97-21-3. Account books kept by corporations
§ 97-21-5. Certain instruments deemed writings
§ 97-21-7. Certificate of acknowledgment or proof of deeds and other recordable instruments
§ 97-21-9. Certificate or public security, share in public stock or indorsement thereof
§ 97-21-11. Coin operated machines; use or sale of slug or other device
§ 97-21-13. Counterfeiting: currency or treasury notes of United States
§ 97-21-15. Counterfeiting: currency of foreign countries
§ 97-21-17. Counterfeiting: possession of counterfeit currency with intention to utter
§ 97-21-19. Corporate evidences of debt signed by pretended officer
§ 97-21-21. Destruction, erasure, or obliteration of writing deemed forgery
§ 97-21-31. Parts of several genuine instruments connected to make one instrument
§ 97-21-35. Pleadings, process and other court papers, licenses, or written instruments generally
§ 97-21-37. Possession of counterfeit bank notes or other instrument with intention to utter
§ 97-21-39. Railroad tickets; definition
§ 97-21-41. Railroad tickets; making or altering
§ 97-21-43. Railroad tickets; possession of forged or altered tickets
§ 97-21-47. Seal of state and other government and corporate seals or their impressions
§ 97-21-49. Selling or offering to sell counterfeit notes or other evidence of debt, etc.
§ 97-21-59. Uttering counterfeit instrument or coin
§ 97-21-63. Will, deed, certificate of acknowledgment or proof of recordable instrument