Mississippi Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 97-21-35. Pleadings, process and other court papers, licenses, or written instruments generally

Every person who, with the intent to injure or defraud, shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit any instrument or writing being or purporting to be any process issued by any competent court, magistrate, or officer, or being or purporting to be any pleading or proceeding filed or entered in any court of law or equity, or being or purporting to be any certificate, order, or allowance, by any competent court, board, or officer, or being or purporting to be any license or authority authorized by any statute, or any instrument or writing being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any pecuniary demand or obligation shall be or purport to be created, increased, discharged, or diminished, or by which any right or property whatever shall be or purport to be transferred, conveyed, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, by which false making, forging, altering or counterfeiting any person may be affected, bound, or in any way injured in his person or property, shall be guilty of forgery.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

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

§ 97-21-23. Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; possessing impressions made from such plate

§ 97-21-25. Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; when plate deemed imitation of genuine instrument

§ 97-21-27. Intent to defraud

§ 97-21-29. Making and uttering instrument in own name under pretense that it is act of another of same name

§ 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

§ 97-21-45. Record of will or other instrument constituting evidence, judgment or decree of court, or return on process

§ 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.

§ 97-21-51. Unauthorized use or signing of another's name to telegram, petition or related communication

§ 97-21-59. Uttering counterfeit instrument or coin

§ 97-21-61. Warrants on state treasury, United States treasury, or county, city, town or village treasury

§ 97-21-63. Will, deed, certificate of acknowledgment or proof of recordable instrument