Mississippi Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 97-21-9. Certificate or public security, share in public stock or indorsement thereof

Every person who shall be convicted of having forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered any certificate or other public security issued or purporting to have been issued under the authority of this state by virtue of any law thereof, by which certificate or other public security the payment of any money, absolutely or upon contingency, shall be promised, or the receipt of any money, goods, or valuable thing shall be acknowledged; or any certificate of any share, right or interest in any public stock, created by virtue of any law of this state, issued or purporting to have been issued by any public officer, or any other evidence of any debt or liability of this state, either absolute or contingent, issued or purporting to be issued by any public officer; or any indorsement or other instrument transferring or purporting to transfer the right or interest of any holder of any such certificate, public security, certificate of stock, evidence of debt or liability, or of any person entitled to such right or interest, with intent to defraud this state, or any public officer thereof, or any other person, 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