The number of days spent by a prisoner in incarceration in any municipal or county jail while awaiting trial on a criminal charge, or awaiting an appeal to a higher court upon conviction, shall be applied on any sentence rendered by a court of law or on any sentence finally set after all avenues of appeal are exhausted.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 19 - Judgment, Sentence, and Execution
§ 99-19-1. Change of law not to affect prosecution or punishment of crime committed prior to change
§ 99-19-7. Verdict as to some, disagreement as to other defendants
§ 99-19-9. No special form of verdict required
§ 99-19-11. Verdict may be reformed at the bar if informal or defective
§ 99-19-15. Sentence; felon under age sixteen
§ 99-19-18. Mandatory minimum sentence for embezzlement or other unlawful conversion of public funds
§ 99-19-20. Sentence; imposition of fine; payment; imprisonment for nonpayment; indigent defendants
§ 99-19-23. Sentence; credit for time of prisoner's pre-trial or pre-appeal confinement
§ 99-19-27. Convicts who violate terms of suspended sentence or parole are subject to arrest
§ 99-19-31. Penalty where none fixed elsewhere by statute
§ 99-19-33. Where penalty modified milder penalty may be imposed
§ 99-19-35. Person convicted of certain crimes not to practice medicine or dentistry, or hold office
§ 99-19-39. Detention of convict pending appeal
§ 99-19-41. Delivery of appellant to county where supreme court is held
§ 99-19-42. Post-conviction proceeding; time for hearing and return to Department of Corrections
§ 99-19-43. Duty of judge when convict sentenced to penitentiary
§ 99-19-45. Commitment to penitentiary; duties of clerks of circuit court; fees
§ 99-19-47. Commitment to penitentiary; form
§ 99-19-48. Placement of person on probation; form for report
§ 99-19-53. Execution of death sentence; state executioner
§ 99-19-65. Collection of fines, penalties, and list reported
§ 99-19-67. Remedy against officer, in reference to fines