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MS Code § 99-11-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-3. Local jurisdiction; venue; venue regarding indictments returned by state grand jury

  The local jurisdiction of all offenses, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be in the county where committed. But, if on the trial the evidence makes it doubtful in which of several counties, including that in which the indictment or affidavit alleges the offense was committed, such doubt shall not avail to procure the acquittal of the defendant.   The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to indictments returned by a state grand jury. The venue of trials for indictments returned by a state grand jury shall be as provided by the State Grand Jury Act. This subsection shall stand repealed from and after July 1, 2024.
MS Code § 99-11-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-5. Extent of criminal jurisdiction of State of Mississippi

 The criminal jurisdiction of the State of Mississippi is hereby extended as follows: Beginning at a point on the Mississippi River where the northern boundary line of the State of Mississippi intersects the thread, or middle of the stream of said river, and extending due west along a line parallel with, and in extension of the northern boundary line of the State of Mississippi to the west bank of said river, thence south along said bank and following the meandering thereof to the southern boundary line of the State of Arkansas, thence east to the thread, or middle of the stream of said river.
MS Code § 99-11-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-7. Concurrent jurisdiction with Arkansas

 The State of Mississippi, and her sister state, Arkansas, have concurrent criminal jurisdiction over all the waters, islands, and territory lying opposite them and between the east and west banks of said river and the north boundary line of the State of Mississippi and the south boundary line of the State of Arkansas, at their intersection with the Mississippi River.
MS Code § 99-11-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-9. Jurisdiction of paternity proceedings

 The circuit court of the county in which an illegitimate child is born shall have jurisdiction of any action brought under section 97-29-11, Mississippi Code of 1972. No male person shall be convicted solely on the uncorroborated testimony of the female person giving birth to the child.
MS Code § 99-11-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-11. Embezzlement

 When an embezzlement is committed it may be prosecuted in the county in which the money or property, or some part thereof, was received or converted by the accused, or in the county in which he was under obligation to pay over the funds or to deliver up the property.
MS Code § 99-11-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-13. Kidnapping

 Every person who shall be accused of kidnapping may be indicted and tried either in the county where the offense may have been committed, or in any county into or through which any person so kidnapped or confined shall have been taken while under such confinement.
MS Code § 99-11-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-15. Offenses commenced out of and consummated in state

 Where an offense is commenced out of this state and consummated in it, or where an offense is consummated in this state by any means or agency proceeding from a person out of this state, the person so commencing such offense or putting in operation such means or agency, although out of the state at the time such offense was actually consummated, shall be liable to indictment and punishment therefor in the county in which the offense was consummated.
MS Code § 99-11-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-17. Offenses commenced in and consummated out of state

 Where an offense is commenced in this state and consummated out of it, either directly or by the accused or by any means or agency procured by or proceeding from him, he may be indicted and tried in the county in which such offense was commenced or from which such means or agency proceeded.
MS Code § 99-11-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-19. Offenses committed partly in one county and partly in another

 When an offense is committed partly in one county and partly in another, or where the acts, effects, means, or agency occur in whole or in part in different counties, the jurisdiction shall be in either county in which said offense was commenced, prosecuted, or consummated, where prosecution shall be first begun.
MS Code § 99-11-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-21. Occurrence in one jurisdiction causing death in another

 Where the mortal stroke or other cause of death occurs or is given or administered in one county, and the death occurs in another county, the offender may be indicted and tried in either county; and so, also, if the mortal stroke or cause of death occur or be given or administered in another state or country and the death happen in this state, the offender may be indicted and tried in the county in which the death happened.
MS Code § 99-11-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-23. Stolen property carried into state or carried from one county to another

 Where property is stolen in another state or country and brought into this state, or is stolen in one county in this state and carried into another, the offender may be indicted and tried in any county into or through which the property may have passed, or where the same may be found.
MS Code § 99-11-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-25. Aiding, encouraging or causing commission of crime within state by person while out of state

 A person who being out of this state causes, aids, advises or encourages any person to commit a crime or public offense within this state and is afterwards found within this state shall be punished in the same manner as if he had been within this state when he caused, aided, advised or encouraged the commission of such crime or public offense.
MS Code § 99-11-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-27. Former acquittal or conviction in another jurisdiction

 Every person charged with an offense committed in another state, territory, or country may plead a former conviction or acquittal for the same offense in such other state, territory, or country; and, if such plea be established, it shall be a bar to any further proceedings for the same offense here.
MS Code § 99-11-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-29. Acquittal for variance between indictment and proof or on exception to form

 Where a defendant is acquitted of a criminal charge upon trial on the ground of a variance between the indictment and proof, or upon exception to the form or substance of the indictment or record, he may be tried and convicted upon a subsequent indictment for the offense actually committed, notwithstanding such acquittal; and it shall be the duty of the court to order the accused into the custody of the proper officer.   In all cases of acquittal on the ground of variance between the indictment and proof, the jury, in rendering its verdict, shall so certify.
MS Code § 99-11-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-31. Acquittal on the merits

 When a defendant is acquitted on the merits of his case, and not on any ground stated in Section 99-11-29 such acquittal shall be a bar to any subsequent accusation for the same offense, notwithstanding any defect in the record, or in the form or substance of the indictment upon which such acquittal was had.
MS Code § 99-11-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-33. Acquittal or conviction by justice of the peace for misdemeanor not to bar prosecution for felony

 The acquittal or conviction of a person by a justice of the peace, or a county court on a charge of being guilty of a misdemeanor, shall not be a bar to a prosecution for a felony in the same matter; but thereafter, on indictment for the felony, if the accused be acquitted thereof, he shall not be convicted of the constituent misdemeanor; and, if convicted of the felony, the court may moderate the sentence so as not to punish for the constituent misdemeanor.
MS Code § 99-11-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-35. No acquittal for defects of form

 A person shall not be acquitted or discharged in a criminal case, before verdict, for any irregularity or informality in the pleadings or proceedings; nor shall any verdict or judgment be arrested, reversed or annulled after the same is rendered, for any defect or omission in any jury, either grand or petit, or for any other defect of form which might have been taken advantage of before verdict, and which shall not have been so taken advantage of.
MS Code § 99-11-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-37. Cognizance and jurisdiction of crimes committed in particular district in Harrison County or Hinds County

  In Harrison County, a county having two (2) judicial districts, all crimes and misdemeanors shall be cognizable only in the proper court of the district in which the offense may be committed, and such court shall have jurisdiction of the same.   In Hinds County, a county having two (2) judicial districts, all crimes and misdemeanors committed in Hinds County shall be cognizable in the court of either judicial district of the county, and such court shall have jurisdiction of the same. Any and all proceedings may be conducted in either judicial district.
MS Code § 99-11-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-39. Transmittal of records on change of venue or transfer or removal of trial in Harrison County or Hinds County

  In Harrison County, a county having two (2) judicial districts, in all criminal cases where the venue thereof shall be changed, or the trial transferred or removed from one district to the other, the original papers, together with certified copies of all motions, orders and decrees made and entered in such suits, proceedings, matters and cases, shall be transmitted, transferred and filed by the proper clerk to and in his office at the proper place to which such change of venue or transfer shall be made.   In Hinds County, a county having two (2) judicial districts, in all criminal cases where the venue thereof may be changed, or the trial transferred or removed from one district to the other, the original papers, together with certified copies of all motions, orders and decrees made and entered in such suits, proceedings, matters and cases, may be transmitted, transferred and filed by the proper clerk to and in his office at the proper place to which such change of venue or transfer may be made.
MS Code § 99-13-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 13 - Insanity Proceedings|§ 99-13-1. Definition of "person with an intellectual disability."

 The term "person with an intellectual disability," within the meaning of this chapter, shall have the same meaning as the term "person with an intellectual disability" in Section 41-21-61.
MS Code § 99-13-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 13 - Insanity Proceedings|§ 99-13-3. Disposition of offender who is insane or a person with an intellectual disability brought before conservator of the peace

 When any prisoner or any person charged with a crime or delinquency is brought before any conservator of the peace, and in the course of the investigation it appears that the person was insane when the offense was committed and still is insane, or was a person with an intellectual disability to such an extent as not to be responsible for his or her act or omission at the time when the act or omission charged was made, he shall not be discharged, but the conservator of the peace shall remand the prisoner to custody and immediately report the case to the chancellor or clerk of the chancery court, whose duty it shall be to proceed with the case according to the law provided for persons with mental illness or persons with an intellectual disability.
MS Code § 99-13-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 13 - Insanity Proceedings|§ 99-13-5. Disposition of an accused who grand jury has found to be insane or a person with an intellectual disability

 When any person is held in prison or on bail, charged with an offense, and the grand jury does not find a true bill for reason of insanity of the accused or for reason that the accused has an intellectual disability, which they judge to be such that he or she was not responsible for his acts or omissions at the time when the act or omission charged was committed or made, the grand jury shall certify the fact to the circuit court and shall state whether or not the insane person or person with an intellectual disability is a danger to the security of persons and property and the peace and safety of the community, and if the grand jury reports that insanity or intellectual disability and that danger, the court shall immediately give notice of the case to the chancellor or to the clerk of the chancery court, whose duty it shall be to proceed with the insane person and his estate or the person with an intellectual disability according to the law provided in the case of persons with mental illness or persons with an intellectual disability.
MS Code § 99-13-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 13 - Insanity Proceedings|§ 99-13-7. Acquittal for insanity; presumption of continuing mental illness and dangerousness of person acquitted on ground of insanity; challenge to presumption; hearing; right to counsel

  When any person is indicted for an offense and acquitted on the ground of insanity, the jury rendering the verdict shall state in the verdict that ground and whether the accused has since been restored to his sanity and whether he is dangerous to the community. If the jury certifies that the person is still insane and dangerous, the judge shall order him to be conveyed to and confined in one of the state psychiatric hospitals or institutions.   There shall be a presumption of continuing mental illness and dangerousness of the person acquitted on the ground of insanity. The presumption may be challenged by the person confined to the state psychiatric hospital or institution and overcome by clear and convincing evidence that the person has been restored to sanity and is no longer dangerous to the community. The court ordering confinement of the person to a state psychiatric hospital or institution shall conduct the hearing to determine whether the person has been restored to sanity and is no longer dangerous to the community. The person shall have the right to counsel at the hearing and if the person is indigent, counsel shall be appointed. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a person found by the jury to have been restored to sanity and no longer a threat to the community.
MS Code § 99-13-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 13 - Insanity Proceedings|§ 99-13-9. Acquittal on the ground of having an intellectual disability

 When any person is indicted for an offense and acquitted on the ground of having an intellectual disability, the jury rendering the verdict shall state in the verdict that ground and whether the accused constitutes a danger to life or property and to the peace and safety of the community. If the jury certifies that the person with an intellectual disability is dangerous to the peace and safety of the community or to himself, the court shall immediately give notice of the case to the chancellor or the clerk of the chancery court, whose duty it shall be to proceed with the person according to the law provided in the case of persons with an intellectual disability, the person with an intellectual disability himself being remanded to custody to await the action of the chancery court.
MS Code § 99-13-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 13 - Insanity Proceedings|§ 99-13-11. Mental examination of person charged with felony; cost

 In any criminal action in which the mental competency of a person charged with a felony is in question, the circuit or county court or judge in vacation on motion duly made by the defendant or the district attorney, or on the motion of the court or judge, may order the person to submit to a mental examination by a competent psychiatrist or psychologist selected by the court to determine his ability to make a defense; any cost or expense in connection with such mental examination shall be paid by the county in which the criminal action is pending.
MS Code § 99-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-1. Indictments to be tried within 270 days of arraignment

 Unless good cause be shown, and a continuance duly granted by the court, all offenses for which indictments are presented to the court shall be tried no later than two hundred seventy (270) days after the accused has been arraigned.
MS Code § 99-17-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-3. Peremptory challenges; number allowed

 In capital cases the defendant and the state shall each be allowed twelve peremptory challenges. In cases not capital the accused and the state each shall be allowed six peremptory challenges; but all peremptory challenges by the state shall be made before the juror is presented to the prisoner. In all cases the accused shall have presented to him a full panel before being called upon to make his peremptory challenges.
MS Code § 99-17-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-5. Peremptory challenges; joint defendant must agree

 Defendants tried jointly must agree in their challenges made without cause, and shall be entitled to only the number to which one defendant is entitled.
MS Code § 99-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-7. Interpreters

 In criminal cases wherein the defendant has been declared indigent, the court may appoint an interpreter who is certified as provided in Section 9-21-73, when necessary, sworn truly to interpret, and allow him a reasonable compensation, as set by the court, payable out of the county treasury.
MS Code § 99-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-9. Trial in the absence of accused

 In criminal cases the presence of the prisoner may be waived (a) if the defendant is in custody and consenting thereto, or (b) is on recognizance or bail, has been arrested and escaped, or has been notified in writing by the proper officer of the pendency of the indictment against him, and resisted or fled, or refused to be taken, or is in any way in default for nonappearance, the trial may progress at the discretion of the court, and judgment made final and sentence awarded as though such defendant were personally present in court.
MS Code § 99-17-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-11. Only two counsel to a side heard

 Only two counsel for the state, one of whom shall be the district attorney, and two for the defendant, shall be heard in criminal cases, unless the court, for special reason, in its discretion, see fit to relax this rule.
MS Code § 99-17-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-13. Variance between indictment and proof; amendment of record and indictment; continuance

 Whenever, on the trial of an indictment for any offense, there shall appear to be any variance between the statement in the indictment and the evidence offered in proof thereof, in the name of any county, city, town, village, division, or any other place mentioned in such indictment, or in the name or description of any person or body politic or corporate, therein stated or alleged to be the owner of any property, real or personal, which shall form the subject of any offense charged therein, or in the name or description of any person, body politic or corporate, therein stated or alleged to be injured or damaged; or intended to be injured or damaged, by the commission of such offense, or in the Christian name or surname, or both, or other description whatever, of any person whomsoever, therein named or described, or in the ownership of any property named or described therein, or in the description of any property or thing, it shall and may be lawful for the court before which the trial shall be had, if it shall consider such variance not material to the merits of the case, and that the defendant cannot be prejudiced thereby in his defense on the merits, to order such indictment and the record and proceedings in the court to be amended according to the proof, whenever it may be deemed necessary by the court to amend such indictment, record, and proceedings, on such terms as to postponing the trial, to be had before the same or another jury, as the court shall think reasonable. After such amendment, the trial shall proceed in the same manner, and with the same consequences in all respects, as if a variance had not occurred; but if the court shall, on application, refuse a continuance, the defendant may take a bill of exceptions thereto, and assign such refusal for error.
MS Code § 99-17-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-15. Variance between indictment and proof; amendment of record and indictment; order for amendment

 The order of the court for amendment of the indictment, record or proceedings provided in Section 99-17-13 shall be entered on the minutes, and shall specify precisely the amendment, and shall be a part of the record of said case, and shall have the same effect as if the indictment or other proceeding were actually changed to conform to the amendment; and wherever necessary or proper for the guidance of the jury, or otherwise, the clerk shall attach to the indictment a copy of the order for amendment.
MS Code § 99-17-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-17. Joint defendants are competent witnesses for one another in separate trials

 Where parties jointly indicted are tried separately, the party not on trial, shall, in all cases, be a competent witness for the party being tried.
MS Code § 99-17-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-19. Assaults; insulting words admissible

 In all trials for assault and battery, or for an assault, the defendant may give in evidence, in excuse or justification, any insulting words used by the person on whom the assault or assault and battery was committed, at the time of the commission thereof, toward the defendant, and the jury may consider and determine whether such words were or were not a sufficient excuse for or justification of the offense committed.