When an appeal is presented to the circuit court in any criminal case from the judgment or sentence of a justice of the peace or municipal court, it shall be permissible, on application of the state or party prosecuting, to amend the affidavit, pleading, or proceedings at any time before a verdict so as to bring the merits of the case fairly to trial on the charge intended to be set out in the original affidavit; the amendment to be made on such terms as the court may consider proper.
Structure Mississippi Code
Article 1 - Appeals to Circuit Courts
§ 99-35-1. Right of appeal; requirement to post bond; trial de novo on appeal
§ 99-35-5. Sheriff empowered to take appeal bond from misdemeanant convicted in justice court
§ 99-35-7. Appeals without bond or supersedeas
§ 99-35-9. Papers to be transmitted to circuit court clerk
§ 99-35-11. Amendment of affidavit, pleading, or proceedings