Source: https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/2010/title-97/37/97-37-19/
Timestamp: 2018-03-19 11:00:14
Document Index: 35042962

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 97', 'art. 9', 'art. 56', '§ 2699', '§ 2804', '§ 1031', '§ 1110', '§ 836', '§ 860', '§ 2086']

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Chapter 37 - Weapons and Explosives.
97-37-19 - Deadly weapons; exhibiting in rude, angry, or threatening manner.
§ 97-37-19. Deadly weapons; exhibiting in rude, angry, or threatening manner.
If any person, having or carrying any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon, or other weapon the carrying of which concealed is prohibited, shall, in the presence of three or more persons, exhibit the same in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, not in necessary self-defense, or shall in any manner unlawfully use the same in any fight or quarrel, the person so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both. In prosecutions under this section it shall not be necessary for the affidavit or indictment to aver, nor for the state to prove on the trial, that any gun, pistol, or other firearm was charged, loaded, or in condition to be discharged.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 9(9); 1857, ch. 64, art. 56; 1871, § 2699; 1880, § 2804; 1892, § 1031; 1906, § 1110; Hemingway's 1917, § 836; 1930, § 860; 1942, § 2086.