Every person who shall be convicted of the detestable and abominable crime against nature committed with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than ten years.
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