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MS Code § 99-7-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-29. Intoxicating beverage offenses

 An indictment for a violation of any of the provisions of Chapter 31 of Title 97, Mississippi Code of 1972, entitled "Intoxicating Beverage Offenses" shall not be quashed or abated for want of form, and it shall not be necessary to aver the particular kind of liquors sold.   In any indictment or presentment for any violation of Chapter 31 of Title 97, Mississippi Code of 1972, it shall not be necessary to negative the exceptions therein contained, or that the liquors, bitters and drinks were not ordered, shipped, transported, or delivered for any of the purposes set out in Section 97-31-33 thereof but such exceptions may be relied upon as defense and the burden of establishing the same shall be upon the person claiming the benefits thereof.
MS Code § 99-7-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-31. Terms of indictment for larceny or embezzlement of money

  In indictments for larceny or embezzlement of money or evidences of debt it shall be sufficient to describe the property in general terms, as "money," "bank-notes," "checks," "bills of exchange," "promissory notes," and the like, of or about a certain amount and of certain value; and in an indictment for embezzlement of money or funds by a treasurer, cashier, or other fiduciary, it shall be sufficient to describe the same as a "balance of account" and of a certain value.   In indictments for any crime in which the ownership of property, whether real or personal, must be alleged and proven, if ownership is vested in any entity other than an individual person, it shall be sufficient to allege and prove a name by which the entity is commonly known; and no indictment shall be held to be insufficient for failing to fully set forth such matters as governmental origins or the names of trustees, council members, supervisors, heirs or other persons with dominion or control over the entity or its property, and proof of such matter shall not be required at any trial upon the indictments.
MS Code § 99-7-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-33. Libel

 An indictment for libel need not set forth any extrinsic facts to show the application of the defamatory matter charged in the indictment to the party libeled, but it shall be sufficient to charge generally that the same was published of or concerning him, and the fact that it was so published must be proved on the trial.
MS Code § 99-7-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-35. Lotteries

 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.
MS Code § 99-7-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-37. Murder and manslaughter

  In an indictment for homicide it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which or the means by which the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient to charge in an indictment for murder, that the defendant did feloniously, willfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased. It shall be sufficient, in an indictment for manslaughter, to charge that the defendant did feloniously kill and slay the deceased, concluding in all cases as required by the Constitution of this state.   An indictment for murder or capital murder shall be sufficient to also charge the lesser offense of manslaughter without a specific allegation of such lesser crime and without any necessity for an additional count charging such lesser crime.
MS Code § 99-7-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-39. Perjury

 In an indictment for perjury it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offense charged upon the defendant - that he was sworn or testified on oath, and before what court, or before whom the oath or affirmation was taken; averring the court or person to have had competent authority to administer the same, together with proper averments to falsify the matter wherein the perjury is assigned, without setting forth the bill, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any record or proceeding, either in law or equity, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court, or the commission or authority of the person before whom the perjury was committed.
MS Code § 99-7-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-41. Perjury; subornation of perjury

 In an indictment for subornation of perjury it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offense charged upon the defendant, without setting forth the bill, answer, information, or any part of the record or proceeding, either in law or equity, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court or person before whom the perjury was committed, or was agreed or promised to be committed.
MS Code § 99-9-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-1. Capias or alias issued for arrest on indictment

 The process for arrest on an indictment shall be a capias, which shall be issued immediately on the return of the indictment into court, and made returnable instanter, unless otherwise ordered by the court, and if the capias be not returned executed, the clerk shall issue an alias, returnable to the next term, without an order for that purpose.
MS Code § 99-9-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-3. Corporations; summons issued on indictment; execution on judgment

 When an indictment shall be found against a corporation, a summons shall be issued against it, by its corporate name, to appear and answer the indictment, which summons may be executed as a summons against a corporation in a civil suit; and upon the summons being returned executed, the corporation shall be considered in court, and appearing to the indictment, and the court shall, unless the defendant do so of its own accord, cause an appearance for it to be entered of record; and such proceedings may then be had thereon as if the corporation had appeared and pleaded thereto; and if the corporation be convicted on the indictment, the court may pass judgment thereon, and cause process of execution to be issued against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the corporation for the amount of the fine and costs which may be awarded against it, as on a judgment in a civil suit; and the sheriff shall proceed to sell the goods and chattels, and lands and tenements of the corporation on the execution as on an execution issuing against a corporation in a civil suit.
MS Code § 99-9-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-5. Corporations; summons issued to other counties

 If the summons be returned not executed, and the officer shall make affidavit that he hath made diligent inquiry and cannot ascertain any place of business of the corporation in the county, or the name of any officer of the corporation, resident in the county in which such indictment shall have been found, upon whom the summons could be executed, then the court shall make an order directing a summons to issue to any other county of the state in which the defendant corporation may be served, or the summons may be issued in the first instance without a precedent order of the court, and its service shall be as effectual as if served in the county where the indictment is found.
MS Code § 99-9-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-7. Corporations; order to appear mailed and published if corporation not found; appearance and plea entered; execution

 If it be made known to the court, by affidavit of any credible person, as required in suits in chancery against non-residents, that the defendant corporation is non-resident, or cannot be found in this state, it shall order said corporation to cause its appearance to be entered, and to plead to the indictment, on or before the first day of the next term of the court, a copy of which order shall, within thirty days, be forwarded by mail to the corporation, postage paid, by the clerk of the court, if the post-office address be made known by the affidavit; and it shall also be published for three weeks in one of the public newspapers printed in this state, as the court may direct. If the corporation shall not appear within the time limited by such order, or within such further time as the court shall appoint, then, on due proof of the mailing and publication, or of the publication, the court shall order the clerk to enter an appearance and plea of not guilty for said corporation, and, thereupon, further proceedings may be had on such indictment as if the corporation had appeared and pleaded thereto. In case of conviction, execution may be issued and proceedings had thereon as described in section 99-9-5.
MS Code § 99-9-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-9. Corporations; proceeding before justice of the peace

 Process and proceedings like those described in Sections 99-9-3 through 99-9-7 may be had before justices of the peace in a prosecution or proceeding against a corporation for any offense cognizable before a justice of the peace. In case publication be necessary, the day of appearance may be fixed for such time as will allow the order to be published for the required period.
MS Code § 99-9-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-11. Subpoenas for witnesses

 The first process, in all criminal causes, and in all courts, to compel the attendance of a witness, shall be a subpoena, directed to the sheriff or to some proper officer of the county where the witness may reside, stating the time and place for the appearance of the witness, the parties to the cause, and the party at whose instance the witness is subpoenaed. The names of the witnesses, if there be not exceeding six of them, residing in the same county, shall be inserted in the same subpoena.
MS Code § 99-9-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-13. Issuance of subpoena for witness to give deposition for use in another state

 Any commissioner or other person appointed, or to whom a commission may be directed, by any court without the limits of this state, to take the deposition of any witness residing or being in this state, shall have power to issue subpoenas for the witness to be examined, returnable at such time and place as the commissioner or other person may appoint.
MS Code § 99-9-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-15. Subpoena to compel attendance of witness from nearby county during term

 If, during the session of any circuit court, there shall be wanted in any case or matter before the court, or before the grand jury, a witness who resides or may be found in any county within the state, and within one hundred (100) miles of the place where the court is being held, such court may order a subpoena or attachment for such witness, directed to the sheriff of the county in which the court is being held. The sheriff shall execute the process according to its command, in the county where such witness may be found, and the service shall be as valid as if effected in the county in which the court is being held. The court may, however, appoint some person not an officer to execute and return such process, whose action in executing it shall be as lawful as if done by the sheriff, and who shall be entitled to the same fees therefor as the sheriff would be entitled to for executing the process.
MS Code § 99-9-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-17. Service of subpoena

 Subpoenas shall be served personally as a summons is required to be served, and the person so subpoenaed shall appear.
MS Code § 99-9-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-19. Attachment for non-appearing subpoenaed witness

 If any person subpoenaed as a witness shall fail to appear and attend as required, an attachment shall be issued by order of the court or other authority before which he was subpoenaed to appear, returnable at such time as the court or authority may appoint. The court or authority shall, on ordering the attachment, direct whether the witness shall enter into bond for his appearance, and in what sum, and whether with or without sureties, which bond the sheriff, or other officer by whom the attachment is executed, is authorized to take, payable to the state. In case the witness shall appear in answer to the attachment, the court may discharge him therefrom, on good cause shown, or may require him to enter into recognizance or bond for his appearance until discharged, to testify in the cause. In case the witness shall not appear, in pursuance of his recognizance or bond, the same proceedings shall be had as upon the forfeiture of a recognizance in a criminal case.
MS Code § 99-9-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-21. Subpoenaed witness to attend until discharged; scire facias for defaulters

 Every witness subpoenaed in any criminal case, shall attend, from day to day, and from term to term without further notice, until discharged by the court or by the party at whose instance he was subpoenaed, and in default thereof he shall be fined by the court not more than five hundred dollars, and a scire facias shall issue thereon, requiring him to appear at the next term of the court, to show cause why the fine should not be made absolute. If cause be not then shown, the fine shall be made final. In criminal cases, the court may cause the witnesses on either side to be bound by bond or recognizance to appear and testify until discharged.
MS Code § 99-9-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-23. Witness subpoenaed in vacation to appear before grand jury

 Any district attorney or conservator of the peace may apply to the clerk of the circuit court in vacation for writs of subpoena for any witness to attend before the grand jury. It shall be the duty of the clerk to issue all subpoenas thus applied for, and it shall be the duty of all witnesses subpoenaed to attend in obedience to the command of such subpoena. If such witnesses fail to appear, the foreman of the grand jury may apply for and obtain an attachment, as in other cases of defaulting witnesses, and such witnesses shall be liable to all the penalties to which any defaulting witness is subject.
MS Code § 99-9-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-25. Attachment of subpoenaed witnesses failing to appear before grand jury

 In all cases where process to bring witnesses before the grand jury shall be executed, and the witness shall fail to attend, the clerk shall, on the order of the judge or application of the district attorney or any member of the grand jury, issue an attachment for such witness, returnable immediately, or, if the court shall so direct, to the next term. Bond may be required, and fine imposed and proceedings had thereon as in other cases of defaulting witnesses.
MS Code § 99-9-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-27. Uniform witness attendance law; short title

 Sections 99-9-27 through 99-9-35 may be cited as "uniform law to secure the attendance of witnesses from without the state in criminal cases."
MS Code § 99-9-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-29. Definitions

 "Witness" as used in Sections 99-9-27 through 99-9-35 shall include a person whose testimony is relevant and material and desired in any proceeding or investigation by a grand jury or in a criminal action, prosecution or proceeding.   "State" as used in Sections 99-9-27 through 99-9-35 shall include any territory of the United States and the District of Columbia.
MS Code § 99-9-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-31. Summoning witnesses in this state to testify in another state

 If a judge of a court of record in any state which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within that state to attend and testify in this state, certifies under the seal of such court that there is a criminal prosecution pending in such court, or that a grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, that a person being within this state is a material witness in such prosecution, or grand jury investigation, and that his presence will be required for a specified number of days, upon presentation of such certificate to any judge of a court of record in the county in which such person is, such judge shall fix a time and place for a hearing, and shall make an order directing the witness to appear at a time and place certain for the hearing.   If at a hearing, the judge determines that the witness is material and necessary, that it will not cause undue hardship to the witness to be compelled to attend and testify in the prosecution or a grand jury investigation in the other state, and that the laws of the state in which the prosecution is pending, or grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence, will give to him protection from arrest and the service of civil and criminal process, he shall issue a summons, with a copy of the certificate attached, directing the witness to attend and testify in the court where the prosecution is pending, or where the grand jury investigation has commenced or is about to commence at a time and place specified in the summons. In any such hearing the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all the facts stated therein.   If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state to assure his attendance in the requesting state, such judge may, in lieu of notification of the hearing, direct that such witness be forthwith brought before him for said hearing, and the judge at the hearing being satisfied of the desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determination the certificate shall be prima facie proof of such desirability may, in lieu of issuing subpoena or summons, order that said witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to an officer of the requesting state.   If the summoned witness, after being paid or tendered by some properly authorized person, the sum of ten ($.10) cents a mile for each mile and five ($5.00) dollars for each day that he is required to travel and attend as a witness, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
MS Code § 99-9-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-33. Witness from another state summoned to testify in this state

 If a person in any state, which by its laws has made provision for commanding persons within its borders to attend and testify in criminal prosecutions, or grand jury investigations commenced or about to commence, in this state, is a material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in this state, or in a grand jury investigation which has commenced or is about to commence, a judge of such court may issue a certificate under the seal of the court stating these facts and specifying the number of days the witness shall be required. This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the county or parish in which the witness is found.   If said certificate recommends that the witness be taken into immediate custody and delivered to an officer of this state to assure his attendance in this state, such judge may direct that such witness be forthwith brought before him, and the judge being satisfied of the desirability of such custody and delivery, for which determination said certificate shall be prima facie proof, may order that said witness be forthwith taken into custody and delivered to an officer of this state, which order shall be sufficient authority to such officer to take such witness into custody and hold him unless and until he may be released by bail, recognizance, or order of the judge issuing the certificate.   If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in this state, he shall be tendered the sum of ten ($.10) cents a mile for each mile and five ($5.00) dollars for each day that he is required to travel and attend as a witness. A witness who has appeared in accordance with the provisions of the summons shall not be required to remain within this state a longer period of time than the period mentioned in the certificate, unless otherwise ordered by the court. If such witness fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed in the summons, he shall be punished in the manner provided for the punishment of any witness who disobeys a summons issued from a court of record in this state.
MS Code § 99-9-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-35. Exemption from arrest and service of process

 If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing him to attend and testify in this state, he shall not, while in this state pursuant to such summons or order, be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his entrance into this state under the summons.   If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons or order to attend and testify in that state or while returning therefrom, he shall not, while so passing through this state, be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his entrance into this state under the summons or order.
MS Code § 99-9-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 9 - Process|§ 99-9-37. Uniformity of interpretation

 Sections 99-9-27 to 99-9-35 shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of the states which enact them.
MS Code § 99-11-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 11 - Jurisdiction and Venue|§ 99-11-1. Jurisdiction of crimes generally

 The several courts of justice organized under the constitution and laws of this state, shall possess the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of trying and punishing all persons in the manner prescribed by law, for crimes and offenses committed in this state, except such as are exclusively cognizable by the courts deriving their jurisdiction from the constitution and laws of the United States.