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Article 1 - In General
§ 97-9-3. Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc. - The stealing and carrying away, or fraudulently withdrawing, concealing, or...
§ 97-9-5. Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished - If any person drawn, summoned, chosen, or appointed as a...
§ 97-9-7. Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing, etc. crime punishable by death or life imprisonment - Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of...
§ 97-9-9. Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing crime punishable by less than life imprisonment - Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of...
§ 97-9-11. Champerty and maintenance; solicitation and stirring up of litigation prohibited - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation,...
§ 97-9-13. Champerty and maintenance; penalty - Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 97-9-11...
§ 97-9-15. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of party - Every person who commences or prosecutes or assists in the...
§ 97-9-17. Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of attorney representing party - Every attorney representing any person, firm, partnership, corporation, group, organization,...
§ 97-9-19. Champerty and maintenance; penalty for false affidavit - Every person or attorney who shall file a false affidavit...
§ 97-9-21. Champerty and maintenance; immunity granted witnesses compelled to testify concerning violations; penalty for failure to testify - No person shall be excused from attending or testifying or...
§ 97-9-23. Champerty and maintenance; exceptions; legislative intent - The provisions of Sections 97-9-11 through 97-9-23 shall not be...
§ 97-9-25. Escape of inmates of state institutions; aiding, abetting, etc. - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation...
§ 97-9-27. Escape of prisoners; conveying articles useful for escape to felons - Every person who shall convey into the penitentiary, jail, or...
§ 97-9-29. Escape of prisoners; aiding escape of felons generally; rescuing prisoners from custody - Every person who shall, by any means whatever, aid or...
§ 97-9-31. Escape of prisoners; aiding prisoners other than felons generally; conveying article useful for escape - Every person who, by any means whatever, shall aid or...
§ 97-9-33. Escape of prisoners; aiding escapes from officers - Every person who shall aid or assist any prisoner in...
§ 97-9-35. Escape of prisoners; permitting escape - If any officer, or guard of the penitentiary, or any...
§ 97-9-37. Escape of prisoners; private persons having custody of prisoner arrested on suspicion - If any private person having a prisoner in his keeping,...
§ 97-9-39. Escape of prisoners; refusal of officer, jailer, etc., to arrest or confine; refusal to receive prisoners at jail; suffering an escape; accepting bribe to permit escape - If any sheriff, jailer, constable, marshal, or other officer, shall...
§ 97-9-41. Escape of prisoners; concealing or harboring escaped prisoner - Every person who shall knowingly conceal or harbor any prisoner...
§ 97-9-43. Escape of prisoners; escapee may be retaken after term expires and imprisoned until tried - If any convict, confined in any jail or in the...
§ 97-9-45. Escape of prisoners; penalty; willful failure to return to jail after being entrusted to leave - If any person sentenced to the Mississippi Department of Corrections...
§ 97-9-47. Escape of prisoners; penalty for penitentiary convicts serving less than life term; attempt by force or violence - Every person lawfully imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term...
§ 97-9-53. Indictments; penalty for disclosing facts relating to indictment - If a grand juror, witness, district attorney, clerk, sheriff, or...
§ 97-9-55. Intimidating judge, juror, witness, attorney, etc., or otherwise obstructing justice - If any person or persons by threats, force or abuse,...
§ 97-9-57. Officer not to converse with juror; penalty - The sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, shall not be in...
§ 97-9-59. Perjury; definition - Every person who shall wilfully and corruptly swear, testify, or...
§ 97-9-61. Perjury; penalty - Persons convicted of perjury shall be punished by imprisonment in...
§ 97-9-63. Perjury; subornation of - Every person who shall unlawfully or corruptly procure any witness,...
§ 97-9-65. Perjury; bribery to procure - Every person who shall, by the offer of any valuable...
§ 97-9-69. Property levied on; removing without authority - Any person who shall, without authority of law, remove property...
§ 97-9-71. Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers - If any person shall have in his possession or under...
§ 97-9-73. Resisting or obstructing arrest; fleeing or eluding law enforcement officer in motor vehicle - It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or...
§ 97-9-75. Resisting service of process - Any person who knowingly and wilfully opposes or resists any...
§ 97-9-77. Wills; alteration, destruction or secretion - If any person shall wilfully alter or destroy any will...
§ 97-9-79. Misdemeanor; false information - Any person who shall make or cause to be made...
Article 3 - Obstruction of Justice
§ 97-9-101. Definitions - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...
§ 97-9-103. Hindering prosecution or apprehension; definition of "criminal assistance." - For the purposes of this article, a person "renders criminal...