An indictment for any of the crimes defined in Sections 97-33-31 to 97-33-49, Mississippi Code of 1972, being those sections concerning lotteries and raffles, shall be good which charges the crime in the language of the statute, without setting forth therein the number or date of the ticket or the device, or anything in the nature thereof, or policy, or that which represents the same, or the name of the lottery or gift enterprise, or where the same is located, or anything else not expressly embraced in the statutory definition or description of the crime.
Structure Mississippi Code
§ 99-7-1. Indictment may charge offenses according to common law or statute
§ 99-7-3. Formal or technical words not necessary
§ 99-7-5. Allegations of time; want of perfect venue
§ 99-7-7. How instruments pleaded
§ 99-7-11. Concurrence of twelve grand jurors required for finding
§ 99-7-13. Secret record book; accused may be tried on copy made from record book
§ 99-7-15. Authority to inspect indictment limited to certain officers until arrest made
§ 99-7-17. Dilatory pleas; must be verified by oath
§ 99-7-19. Dilatory pleas; amendment of indictment or information
§ 99-7-21. Demurrers; when filed; amendment of indictment
§ 99-7-25. Amendment where name of unknown defendant is discovered