If any person shall obtain carnal knowledge of any woman, or female child, over the age of eighteen years, of previous chaste character, by virtue of any feigned or pretended marriage or any false or feigned promise of marriage, he shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years; but the testimony of the female seduced, alone, shall not be sufficient to warrant a conviction.
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