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§ 97-3-1. Abduction for purposes of marriage - Every person who shall take any person over the age...
§ 97-3-3. Abortion; causing abortion or miscarriage - Said person shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the State...
§ 97-3-5. Abortion; advertisement, sale or gift of drugs or instruments - A person who sells, lends, gives away, or in any...
§ 97-3-7. Simple assault; aggravated assault; simple domestic violence; simple domestic violence third; aggravated domestic violence; aggravated domestic violence third - Upon conviction, the defendant shall be punished by a fine...
§ 97-3-13. False confinement; sending sane person to psychiatric hospital or institution - Every person or officer who maliciously sends to or confines...
§ 97-3-17. Homicide; excusable homicide - The killing of any human being by the act, procurement,...
§ 97-3-23. Homicide; death following duels fought out of state - Every person who shall, by previous appointment, agreement, or understanding...
§ 97-3-27. Homicide; killing while committing felony - The killing of a human being without malice, by the...
§ 97-3-29. Homicide; killing while committing a misdemeanor - The killing of a human being without malice, by the...
§ 97-3-31. Homicide; killing unnecessarily, while resisting effort of slain to commit felony or do unlawful act - Every person who shall unnecessarily kill another, either while resisting...
§ 97-3-33. Killing trespasser involuntarily - The involuntary killing of a human being by the act,...
§ 97-3-35. Homicide; killing without malice in the heat of passion - The killing of a human being, without malice, in the...
§ 97-3-39. Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death - If any physician or other person, while in a state...
§ 97-3-41. Homicide; overloading boat - Any person navigating any boat or vessel for gain, who...
§ 97-3-43. Homicide; ignorant or negligent management of steamboat or railroad engine - If any captain, engineer, or any other person having charge...
§ 97-3-45. Homicide; owner of dangerous animal - If the owner of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensity,...
§ 97-3-47. Homicide; all other killings - Every other killing of a human being, by the act,...
§ 97-3-49. Suicide; aiding - A person who wilfully, or in any manner, advises, encourages,...
§ 97-3-53. Kidnapping; punishment - Any person who, without lawful authority and with or without...
§ 97-3-54. Human Trafficking Act; short title - Sections 97-3-54 through 97-3-54.9 may be known and cited as...
§ 97-3-54.2. Human Trafficking Act; destruction, concealment, or confiscation of passport or other immigration document for purpose of preventing person's freedom of movement or ability to travel; penalties - Anyone who knowingly destroys, conceals, removes, confiscates or possesses, or...
§ 97-3-54.3. Human Trafficking Act; aiding, abetting, or conspiring to violate human trafficking provisions - A person who knowingly aids, abets or conspires with one...
§ 97-3-54.4. Human Trafficking Act; definitions - For the purposes of the Mississippi Human Trafficking Act the...
§ 97-3-54.5. Human Trafficking Act; use of undercover operative in detection of offense permitted - The fact that an undercover operative or law enforcement officer...
§ 97-3-55. Libel; penalty - Any person who shall be convicted of writing or publishing...
§ 97-3-57. Libel; truth as defense - In every criminal prosecution for libel it shall be lawful...
§ 97-3-59. Mayhem - Every person who, from premeditated design or with intent to...
§ 97-3-61. Poisoning with intent to kill or injure - Every person who shall mingle any poison with any food,...
§ 97-3-63. Poisoning with intent to kill; where death does not ensue - Every person who shall be convicted of having administered, or...
§ 97-3-69. Rape; "chaste character" presumed; uncorroborated testimony of victim insufficient - In the trial of all cases under the last preceding...
§ 97-3-71. Rape; assault with intent to ravish - Every person who shall be convicted of an assault with...
§ 97-3-73. Robbery; definition - Every person who shall feloniously take the personal property of...
§ 97-3-75. Robbery; penalty - Every person convicted of robbery shall be punished by imprisonment...
§ 97-3-77. Robbery; threat to injure person or relative at another time - Every person who shall feloniously take the personal property of...
§ 97-3-79. Robbery; use of deadly weapon - Every person who shall feloniously take or attempt to take...
§ 97-3-81. Robbery; threatening letter demanding money, property - Every person who shall knowingly send or deliver, or shall...
§ 97-3-83. Robbery; bonds, bills, notes, etc., cotton receipts and railroad tickets - Robbery of obligations or bonds, bill obligatory, bank bills or...
§ 97-3-85. Threats and intimidation; by letter or notice - If any person shall post, mail, deliver, or drop a...
§ 97-3-87. Threats and intimidation; whitecapping - Any person or persons who shall, by placards, or other...
§ 97-3-89. Timber, trees and saw logs; tampering with to injure or harass the owner prohibited - Any person who shall maliciously and knowingly drive, force, place,...
§ 97-3-91. Timber, trees and saw logs; penalty for tampering when injury occurs - When any person shall be physically injured in handling, sawing,...
§ 97-3-93. Timber, trees and saw logs; penalty for tampering when death results - Whenever the death of any person shall be caused by...
§ 97-3-97. Sexual battery; definitions - For purposes of Sections 97-3-95 through 97-3-103 the following words...
§ 97-3-99. Sexual battery; defense - A person is not guilty of any offense under Sections...
§ 97-3-103. Sexual battery; relationship with other criminal statutes - Sections 97-3-95 through 97-3-103 shall not be held to repeal,...
§ 97-3-113. Mississippi Carjacking Act; short title - Sections 97-3-113, 97-3-115 and 97-3-117 shall be known and may...
§ 97-3-115. Mississippi Carjacking Act; definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...