If any person shall marry within the degrees prohibited by law, he shall be guilty of incest, and on conviction thereof he shall be fined five hundred dollars or imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment, and such marriage shall be void.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency
§ 97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation
§ 97-29-3. Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil
§ 97-29-5. Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry
§ 97-29-7. Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward
§ 97-29-9. Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry
§ 97-29-13. Bigamy; definition; penalty
§ 97-29-15. Bigamy; exceptions
§ 97-29-19. Dead bodies; disinterment for sale or wantonness
§ 97-29-21. Dead bodies; buying or receiving
§ 97-29-23. Dead bodies; opening graves for certain purposes
§ 97-29-27. Incest; marriage within prohibited degrees
§ 97-29-29. Incest; persons divorced for incest not to cohabit or copulate
§ 97-29-43. Polygamy; teaching of
§ 97-29-47. Profanity or drunkenness in public place
§ 97-29-55. Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage
§ 97-29-57. Stallion or jack not to be kept in public view or permitted to run at large