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MS Code § 97-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts|§ 97-1-1. Conspiracy

  If two (2) or more persons conspire either:   To commit a crime; or   Falsely and maliciously to indict another for a crime, or to procure to be complained of or arrested for a crime; or   Falsely to institute or maintain an action or suit of any kind; or   To cheat and defraud another out of property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or which, if executed, would amount to a cheat, or to obtain money or any other property or thing by false pretense; or   To prevent another from exercising a lawful trade or calling, or doing any other lawful act, by force, threats, intimidation, or by interfering or threatening to interfere with tools, implements, or property belonging to or used by another, or with the use of employment thereof; or   To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration of the laws; or   To overthrow or violate the laws of this state through force, violence, threats, intimidation, or otherwise; or   To accomplish any unlawful purpose, or a lawful purpose by any unlawful means; such persons, and each of them, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction may be punished by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or by both.     Where one (1) or more of the conspirators is a law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of official duty or a person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer in the performance of official duty, any remaining conspirator may be charged under this section if the alleged conspirator acted voluntarily and willfully and was not entrapped by the law enforcement officer or person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer.   Where the crime conspired to be committed is capital murder or murder as defined by law or is a violation of Section 41-29-139(b)(1), Section 41-29-139(c)(2)(D) or Section 41-29-313(1), being provisions of the Uniform Controlled Substances Law, the offense shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) or by imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) years, or by both.   Where the crime conspired to be committed is a misdemeanor, then upon conviction said crime shall be punished as a misdemeanor as provided by law.
MS Code § 97-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts|§ 97-1-3. Accessories before the fact

 Every person who shall be an accessory to any felony, before the fact, shall be deemed and considered a principal, and shall be indicted and punished as such; and this whether the principal have been previously convicted or not.
MS Code § 97-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts|§ 97-1-5. Accessories after the fact; punishment

  Every person who shall be convicted of having concealed, received, or relieved any felon, or having aided or assisted any felon, knowing that the person had committed a felony, with intent to enable the felon to escape or to avoid arrest, trial, conviction or punishment after the commission of the felony, on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the custody of the Department of Corrections as follows:   If the felony was a violent crime:   If the maximum punishment was life, death or twenty (20) years or more, for a period not to exceed twenty (20) years; or   If the maximum punishment for the violent felony was less than twenty (20) years, for a period not to exceed the maximum punishment.     If the felony was a nonviolent crime:   If the maximum punishment for the nonviolent felony was ten (10) years or more, for a period not to exceed ten (10) years; or   If the maximum punishment for the nonviolent felony was less than ten (10) years, for a period not to exceed the maximum punishment.       For the purposes of this section, "violent crime" means homicide, robbery, manslaughter, sex crimes, burglary of an occupied dwelling, aggravated assault, kidnapping, drive-by shooting, armed robbery, felonious abuse of a vulnerable person, felonies subject to an enhanced penalty, felony child abuse or exploitation, or any violation of Section 97-5-33 relating to exploitation of children, Section 97-5-39(1)(b), 97-5-39(1)(c) or 97-5-39(2) relating to child neglect or abuse, or Section 63-11-30(5) relating to aggravated DUI.   In the prosecution of an offense under this section, it shall not be necessary to aver in the indictment or to prove on the trial that the principal has been convicted or tried.
MS Code § 97-1-6 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts|§ 97-1-6. Directing or causing felony to be committed by person under age of seventeen years

 In addition to any other penalty and provision of law, any person over the age of seventeen (17) who shall direct or cause any person under the age of seventeen (17) to commit any crime which would be a felony if committed by an adult shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than twenty (20) years, or both.
MS Code § 97-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts|§ 97-1-7. Attempt to commit offense; punishment

  Every person who shall design and endeavor to commit an offense, and shall do any overt act toward the commission thereof, but shall fail therein, or shall be prevented from committing the same, on conviction thereof, shall, where no other specific provision is made by law for the punishment of the attempt, be punished by imprisonment and fine for a period and for an amount not greater than is prescribed for the actual commission of the offense so attempted.   Every person who shall design and endeavor to commit an act which, if accomplished, would constitute an offense of murder under Section 97-3-19, but shall fail therein, or shall be prevented from committing the same, shall be guilty of attempted murder and, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned for life in the custody of the Department of Corrections if the punishment is so fixed by the jury in its verdict after a separate sentencing proceeding. If the jury fails to agree on fixing the penalty at imprisonment for life, the court shall fix the penalty at not less than twenty (20) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
MS Code § 97-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 1 - Conspiracy, Accessories and Attempts|§ 97-1-9. Attempt to commit offense; no conviction if offense completed

 A person shall not be convicted of an assault with intent to commit a crime, or of any other attempt to commit an offense, when it shall appear that the crime intended or the offense attempted was perpetrated by such person at the time of such assault or in pursuance of such attempt.
MS Code § 97-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-1. Abduction for purposes of marriage

 Every person who shall take any person over the age of fourteen (14) years unlawfully, against his or her will, and by force, menace, fraud, deceit, stratagem or duress, compel or induce him or her to marry such person or to marry any other person, or to be defiled, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than five (5) years and not more than fifteen (15) years.
MS Code § 97-3-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-2. Crimes of violence defined

  The following shall be classified as crimes of violence:   Driving under the influence as provided in Sections 63-11-30(5) and 63-11-30(12) (d);   Murder and attempted murder as provided in Sections 97-1-7(2), 97-3-19, 97-3-23 and 97-3-25;   Aggravated assault as provided in Sections 97-3-7(2) (a) and (b) and 97-3-7(4) (a);   Manslaughter as provided in Sections 97-3-27, 97-3-29, 97-3-31, 97-3-33, 97-3-35, 97-3-39, 97-3-41, 97-3-43, 97-3-45 and 97-3-47;   Killing of an unborn child as provided in Sections 97-3-37(2) (a) and 97-3-37(2) (b);   Kidnapping as provided in Section 97-3-53;   Human trafficking as provided in Section 97-3-54.1;   Poisoning as provided in Section 97-3-61;   Rape as provided in Sections 97-3-65 and 97-3-71;   Robbery as provided in Sections 97-3-73 and 97-3-79;   Sexual battery as provided in Section 97-3-95;   Drive-by shooting or bombing as provided in Section 97-3-109;   Carjacking as provided in Section 97-3-117;   Felonious neglect, abuse or battery of a child as provided in Section 97-5-39;   Burglary of a dwelling as provided in Sections 97-17-23 and 97-17-37;   Use of explosives or weapons of mass destruction as provided in Section 97-37-25;   Statutory rape as provided in Section 97-3-65(1), but this classification is rebuttable on hearing by a judge;   Exploitation of a child as provided in Section 97-5-33;   Gratification of lust as provided in Section 97-5-23; and   Shooting into a dwelling as provided in Section 97-37-29.     In any felony offense with a maximum sentence of no less than five (5) years, upon conviction, the judge may find and place in the sentencing order, on the record in open court, that the offense, while not listed in subsection (1) of this section, shall be classified as a crime of violence if the facts show that the defendant used physical force, or made a credible attempt or threat of physical force against another person as part of the criminal act. No person convicted of a crime of violence listed in this section is eligible for parole or for early release from the custody of the Department of Corrections until the person has served at least fifty percent (50%) of the sentence imposed by the court.
MS Code § 97-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-3. Abortion; causing abortion or miscarriage

  Any person wilfully and knowingly causing, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug or other means whatever, any woman pregnant with child to abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure or produce an abortion or miscarriage shall be guilty of a felony unless the same were done by a duly licensed, practicing physician:   Where necessary for the preservation of the mother's life;   Where pregnancy was caused by rape.  Said person shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years; provided, however, if the death of the mother results therefrom, the person procuring, causing or attempting to procure or cause the illegal abortion or miscarriage shall be guilty of murder.      No act prohibited in subsection (1) of this section shall be considered exempt under the provisions of subparagraph (a) thereof unless performed upon the prior advice in writing, of two (2) reputable licensed physicians.   The license of any physician or nurse shall be automatically revoked upon conviction under the provisions of this section.   Nothing in this section shall be construed as conflicting with Section 41-41-73.
MS Code § 97-3-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-4. Failed abortion; unlawful for physician to intentionally allow or cause living child to die; care of living child mandated; penalties

  It shall be unlawful for any physician performing an abortion that results in the delivery of a living child to intentionally allow or cause the child to die.   If the child is viable, such child shall be immediately provided appropriate medical care and comfort care necessary to sustain life. If the child is not viable, such child shall be provided comfort care. The provision of this section shall include, but not be limited to, a child born with physical or mental handicapping conditions which, in the opinion of the parent, the physician or other persons, diminishes the quality of the child's life, a child born alive during the course of an attempted abortion and a child not wanted by the parent.   As used in this section the term "child" includes every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development.   Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, be imprisoned for not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years in the State Penitentiary and fined not more than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) but not less than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00).
MS Code § 97-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-5. Abortion; advertisement, sale or gift of drugs or instruments

 A person who sells, lends, gives away, or in any manner exhibits, or offers to sell, lend, or give away, or has in his possession with intent to sell, lend, or give away, or advertises or offers for sale, loan or distribution any instrument or article, or any drug or medicine, for causing unlawful abortion; or who writes or prints, or causes to be written or printed, a card, circular, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind, or gives information orally, stating when, where, how, of whom, or by what means such article or medicine can be purchased or obtained, or who manufactures any such article or medicine, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months.
MS Code § 97-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-13. False confinement; sending sane person to psychiatric hospital or institution

 Every person or officer who maliciously sends to or confines in a psychiatric hospital or institution or other place, any sane person as a person with mental illness, knowing the person to be sane, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the Penitentiary not more than one (1) year, or in the county jail not more than six (6) months.
MS Code § 97-3-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-17. Homicide; excusable homicide

 The killing of any human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another shall be excusable:   When committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent;   When committed by accident and misfortune, in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation;   When committed upon any sudden combat, without undue advantage being taken, and without any dangerous weapon being used, and not done in a cruel or unusual manner.
MS Code § 97-3-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-21. Homicide; penalty for first- or second-degree murder or capital murder

  Every person who shall be convicted of first-degree murder shall be sentenced by the court to imprisonment for life in the custody of the Department of Corrections.   Every person who shall be convicted of second-degree murder shall be imprisoned for life in the custody of the Department of Corrections if the punishment is so fixed by the jury in its verdict after a separate sentencing proceeding. If the jury fails to agree on fixing the penalty at imprisonment for life, the court shall fix the penalty at not less than twenty (20) nor more than forty (40) years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.   Every person who shall be convicted of capital murder shall be sentenced (a) to death; (b) to imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary without parole; or (c) to imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary with eligibility for parole as provided in Section 47-7-3(1) (f).
MS Code § 97-3-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-23. Homicide; death following duels fought out of state

 Every person who shall, by previous appointment, agreement, or understanding made in this state, fight a duel without the jurisdiction of this state, and, in so doing, shall inflict a wound upon his antagonist or any other person, whereof the person thus injured die within this state, and every second engaged in such duel, shall be guilty of murder in this state, and may be indicted, tried, and convicted in the county where such death shall happen.
MS Code § 97-3-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-25. Homicide; killing of child under 18 years of age by perpetrator over 21 years of age; penalties for manslaughter and child homicide

  Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person convicted of manslaughter shall be fined in a sum not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or both, or in the custody of the Department of Corrections not less than two (2) years, nor more than twenty (20) years.     A person is guilty of child homicide if:   The person is found guilty of manslaughter in circumstances where the killing, although without malice, was intentional and not accidental; and   The perpetrator was over the age of twenty-one (21) years and the victim was a child under the age of eighteen (18) years.     A person found guilty of child homicide shall be imprisoned in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed thirty (30) years.
MS Code § 97-3-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-27. Homicide; killing while committing felony

 The killing of a human being without malice, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such other is engaged in the perpetration of any felony, except those felonies enumerated in Section 97-3-19(2)(e) and (f), or while such other is attempting to commit any felony besides such as are above enumerated and excepted, shall be manslaughter.
MS Code § 97-3-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-29. Homicide; killing while committing a misdemeanor

 The killing of a human being without malice, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such other is engaged in the perpetration of any crime or misdemeanor not amounting to felony, or in the attempt to commit any crime or misdemeanor, where such killing would be murder at common law, shall be manslaughter.
MS Code § 97-3-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 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 an attempt by such other person to commit any felony, or to do any unlawful act, or after such attempt shall have failed, shall be guilty of manslaughter.
MS Code § 97-3-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-33. Killing trespasser involuntarily

 The involuntary killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such human being is engaged in the commission of a trespass or other injury to private rights or property, or is engaged in an attempt to commit such injury, shall be manslaughter.
MS Code § 97-3-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-35. Homicide; killing without malice in the heat of passion

 The killing of a human being, without malice, in the heat of passion, but in a cruel or unusual manner, or by the use of a dangerous weapon, without authority of law, and not in necessary self-defense, shall be manslaughter.
MS Code § 97-3-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-37. Homicide; killing of an unborn child; "human being" includes unborn child at every stage of gestation from conception until live birth for purposes of offenses of assault and homicide; "unborn child" defined; intentional injury to pregnant woman; penalties; provisions of section not applicable to legal medical procedures, including abortion

  For purposes of the offenses enumerated in this subsection (1), the term "human being" includes an unborn child at every stage of gestation from conception until live birth and the term "unborn child" means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb:   Section 97-3-7, simple and aggravated assault and domestic violence;   Section 97-3-15, justifiable homicide;   Section 97-3-17, excusable homicide;   Section 97-3-19, murder, capital murder;   Section 97-3-27, homicide while committing a felony;   Section 97-3-29, homicide while committing a misdemeanor;   Section 97-3-33, killing a trespasser unnecessarily;   Section 97-3-35, killing without malice in the heat of passion;   Section 97-3-45, homicide by means of a dangerous animal;   Section 97-3-47, all other homicides;   Section 97-3-61, poisoning with intent to kill or injure.     A person who intentionally injures a pregnant woman is guilty of a crime as follows:   If the conduct results in a miscarriage or stillbirth by that individual, a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) years or a fine of not more than Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($7,500.00), or both.   If the conduct results in serious physical injury to the embryo or fetus, a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) years or a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both.   If the conduct results in minor physical injury to the embryo or fetus, a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months or a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.     The provisions of this section shall not apply to any legal medical procedure performed by a licensed physician or other licensed medical professional, including legal abortions, when done at the request of a mother of an unborn child or the mother's legal guardian, or to the lawful dispensing or administration of lawfully prescribed medication.   Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit prosecution of an offender pursuant to the provisions of any other applicable statute.
MS Code § 97-3-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-39. Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death

 If any physician or other person, while in a state of intoxication, shall, without a design to effect death, administer or cause to be administered, any poison, drug, or other medicine, or shall perform any surgical operation on another, which shall cause the death of such other person, he shall be guilty of manslaughter.
MS Code § 97-3-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 3 - Crimes Against the Person|§ 97-3-41. Homicide; overloading boat

 Any person navigating any boat or vessel for gain, who shall wilfully or negligently receive so many passengers, or such quantity of lading, that by means thereof such boat or vessel shall sink or overset, and thereby any human being shall be drowned or otherwise killed, shall be guilty of manslaughter.