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MS Code § 99-5-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-11. All conservators of the peace may take recognizance or bond; certificate of default; alias warrant; when protection order registry must be checked; when bond not required

  All justice court judges and all other conservators of the peace are authorized, whenever a person is brought before them charged with any offense not capital for which bail is allowed by law, to take the recognizance or bond of the person, with sufficient sureties, in such penalty as the justice court judge or conservator of the peace may require, for his appearance before the justice court judge or conservator of the peace for an examination of his case at some future day. And if the person thus recognized or thus giving bond fails to appear at the appointed time, it shall be the duty of the justice court judge or conservator of the peace to return the recognizance or bond, with his certificate of default, to the court having jurisdiction of the case, and a recovery may be had therein by scire facias, as in other cases of forfeiture. The justice court judge or other conservator of the peace shall also issue an alias warrant for the defaulter.   In circumstances involving an offense against any of the following: (a) a current or former spouse of the accused or child of that person; (b) a person living as a spouse or who formerly lived as a spouse with the accused or a child of that person; (c) a parent, grandparent, child, grandchild or someone similarly situated to the accused; (d) a person who has a current or former dating relationship with the accused; or (e) a person with whom the accused has had a biological or legally adopted child, the justice court judge or other conservator of the peace shall check, or cause to be made a check, of the status of the person for whom recognizance or bond is taken before ordering bail in the Mississippi Protection Order Registry authorized under Section 93-21-25, and the existence of a domestic abuse protection order against the accused shall be considered when determining appropriate bail.   After the court considers the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, a misdemeanant may be released on his or her own recognizance unless:   The misdemeanant:   Is on probation or parole;   Has other unresolved charges pending; or   Has a history of nonappearance; or     The court finds that:   The release of the misdemeanant would constitute a special danger to any other person or to the community; or   Release of the misdemeanant on his or her own recognizance is highly unlikely to assure the appearance of the misdemeanant as required.
MS Code § 99-5-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-13. Court may make adjustments to excessive or insufficient bail

 When it shall appear to the committing court or the court before which any person charged with a criminal offense has given bail to appear is insufficient or excessive in any respect, the court may (i) after a hearing, order the issuance of a revised mittimus reducing the previously set bail; or (ii) order the issuance of process for the arrest of such person, and may, after a hearing, require him to give bail as may be ordered, and, in default thereof, may commit him to jail as in other cases.
MS Code § 99-5-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-15. Duty of officer to release defendant from custody; approval of sureties

 It is the duty of the sheriff or other officer having custody of such defendant, upon his compliance with the order of the committing court or officer, to release him from custody; and he shall approve the sureties on the bond, except admitted and authorized fidelity and surety insurance companies acting as surety, and for that purpose may examine them on oath, or take their affidavit in writing, and may administer such oath.
MS Code § 99-5-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-17. Sheriff to return bail-bond to clerk

 It is the duty of the sheriff taking a bail-bond to return the same to the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed on or before the first day of the next term thereof.
MS Code § 99-5-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-19. Person who takes insufficient bail-bond, etc., to stand special bail

 If any person, except a properly authorized judge, authorized to release a criminal defendant neglects to take a bail bond, or if the bail bond from any cause is insufficient at the time he took and approved the same, on exceptions taken and filed before the close of the next term, after the same should have been returned, and upon reasonable notice thereof to the person, he shall stand as special bail, and judgment shall be rendered against him as such, except when bond is tendered by a fidelity or insurance company or professional bail agent or its bail agent authorized by Mississippi state license to act as bail surety. The person taking and approving a bail bond from a fidelity or insurance company or professional bail agent or its bail agent with a valid Mississippi state license shall bear no financial liability on the bail bond in the event of a bail bond forfeiture or default.
MS Code § 99-5-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-21. Bond good though it does not describe offense

 All bonds and recognizances taken in criminal cases, whether they describe the offense actually committed or not, shall have the effect to hold the party bound thereby to answer to such offense as he may have actually committed, and shall be valid for that purpose until he be discharged by the court.
MS Code § 99-5-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-23. Bonds, recognizances, etc., to be valid and binding whether or not properly taken or recited in return of officer

 All bonds, recognizances, or acknowledgments of indebtedness, conditioned for the appearance of any party before any court or officer, in any state case or criminal proceeding, which shall have the effect to free such party from jail or legal custody of any sort, shall be valid and bind the party and sureties, according to the condition of such bond, recognizance, or acknowledgment, whether it was taken by the proper officer or under circumstances authorized by law or not, or whether the officer's return identify it or not.   It shall not be an objection to any bail-bond or recognizance that it is in the form of an acknowledgment before a court or officer and is without the signature of any person, or is without the indorsement of approval by any officer; but all persons who, by their acknowledgment before any officer of liability to pay a sum of money to the state if some person shall not appear before some court or officer in a criminal prosecution, procure the discharge from custody of such person, shall be bound accordingly upon the recognizance. An obligation signed by a person to obtain the discharge from custody of another shall not be invalid, if it have that effect, because it does not have indorsed on it the approval of any officer, or because the taking thereof be not recited in the return of the officer.
MS Code § 99-5-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-29. Surety may cause arrest of principal by officer

 The sheriff or a constable in a proper case, upon the request of a surety in any bond or recognizance, and tender of the legal fee for executing a capias in a criminal case, and the production of a certified copy of the bond of recognizance, shall arrest, within his county, the principal in the bond or recognizance. The surety or his agent shall accompany the officer to receive the person.
MS Code § 99-5-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-31. Mittimus in bailable cases to fix the bail

 When a defendant charged with a criminal offense shall be committed to jail by a court, judge, justice or other officer, for default in not giving bail, it is the duty of such court or officer to state in the mittimus the nature of the offense, the county where committed, the amount of bail, and number of sureties required, and to direct the sheriff of the county where such party is ordered to be confined to release him, on his entering into bond as required by the order of the court or committing officer; and this shall apply to a case where, on habeas corpus, an order for bail may be made.
MS Code § 99-5-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-33. Accused committed to prison if injured party is dangerously wounded

 If a person be dangerously wounded the party accused shall be committed to prison until it be known whether the person wounded will recover or not, unless it appear to the court of inquiry that the case, in any event, would not amount to murder; in which case, or in the event that the person wounded do or will recover, the accused shall be dealt with as in other cases.
MS Code § 99-5-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-35. When prisoner charged with capital offense entitled to bail

 Any person having been twice tried on an indictment charging a capital offense, wherein each trial has resulted in a failure of the jury to agree upon his guilt or innocence, shall be entitled to bail in an amount to be set by the court.
MS Code § 99-5-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-37. Domestic violence, aggravated domestic violence, aggravated stalking, knowing violation of bond or knowing violation of domestic abuse protection order; required appearance before judge; considerations; conditions

  In any arrest for (a) a misdemeanor that is an act of domestic violence as defined in Section 99-3-7(5); (b) aggravated domestic violence as defined in Section 97-3-7(4); (c) aggravated stalking as defined in Section 97-3-107(2); (d) a knowing violation of a condition of bond imposed pursuant to this section; or (e) a knowing violation of a domestic abuse protection order issued pursuant to Section 93-21-1 et seq., or a similar order issued by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of protecting a person from domestic abuse, no bail shall be granted until the person arrested has appeared before a judge of the court of competent jurisdiction. The appearance may be by telephone. Nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with the defendant's right to an initial appearance or preliminary hearing.   Upon setting bail, the judge may impose on the arrested person a holding period not to exceed twenty-four (24) hours from the time of the initial appearance or setting of bail. The judge also shall give particular consideration to the exigencies of the case, including, but not limited to, (a) the potential for further violence; (b) the past history, if any, of violence between the defendant and alleged victim; (c) the level of violence of the instant offense; (d) any threats of further violence; and (e) the existence of a domestic violence protection order prohibiting the defendant from engaging in abusive behavior, and shall impose any specific conditions on the bond as he or she may deem necessary. Specific conditions which may be imposed by the judge may include, but are not limited to, the issuance of an order prohibiting the defendant from contacting the alleged victim prior to trial, prohibiting the defendant from abusing or threatening the alleged victim or requiring defendant to refrain from drug or alcohol use.   All bond conditions imposed by the court shall be entered into the corresponding Uniform Offense Report and written notice of the conditions shall be provided at no cost to the arrested person upon his or her release, to the appropriate law enforcement agency, and to the clerk of the court. Upon request, a copy of the written notice of conditions shall be provided at no cost to the victim. In any prosecution for violation of a bond condition imposed pursuant to this section, it shall not be a defense that the bond conditions were not entered into the corresponding Uniform Offense Report.   Within twenty-four (24) hours of a violation of any bond conditions imposed pursuant to this section, any law enforcement officer having probable cause to believe that the violation occurred may make a warrantless arrest of the violator.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with the judges' authority, if any, to deny bail or to otherwise lawfully detain a particular defendant.
MS Code § 99-5-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 5 - Bail|§ 99-5-39. Appearance bond as condition of any court ordered supervision; defendant's failure to appear as grounds for forfeiture of bond

  As a condition of any probation, community control, payment plan for any fine imposed or any other court ordered supervision, the court may order the posting of a bond to secure the appearance of the defendant at any subsequent court proceeding or to otherwise enforce the orders of the court. The appearance bond shall be filed by a duly licensed professional bail agent with the court or with the sheriff who shall provide a copy to the clerk of court.   The court may issue an order sua sponte or upon notice by the clerk or the probation officer that the person has violated the terms of probation, community control, court ordered supervision or other applicable court order to produce the defendant. The court or the clerk of the court shall give the bail agent a minimum of a seventy-two-hour notice to have the defendant before the court. If the bail agent fails to produce the defendant in court or to the sheriff at the time noticed by the court or the clerk of court, the bond shall be forfeited according to the procedures set forth in Section 99-5-25. The defendant's failure to appear shall be the sole grounds for forfeiture of the appearance bond.   The provisions of Sections 83-39-1 et seq. and 99-5-1 et seq. shall govern the relationship between the parties except where they are inconsistent with this section.
MS Code § 99-7-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-1. Indictment may charge offenses according to common law or statute

 Offenses at common law, indictable and punishable by special statutory provision, may be indicted as described or charged according to the common law or according to the statute, and, on conviction, the offenders shall be punished as prescribed.
MS Code § 99-7-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-2. When two or more offenses may be charged in single indictment; trial, verdicts, and sentences

  Two (2) or more offenses which are triable in the same court may be charged in the same indictment with a separate count for each offense if: (a) the offenses are based on the same act or transaction; or (b) the offenses are based on two (2) or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.   Where two (2) or more offenses are properly charged in separate counts of a single indictment, all such charges may be tried in a single proceeding.   When a defendant is convicted of two (2) or more offenses charged in separate counts of an indictment, the court shall impose separate sentences for each such conviction.   The jury or the court, in cases in which the jury is waived, shall return a separate verdict for each count of an indictment drawn under subsection (1) of this section.   Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the court from exercising its statutory authority to suspend either the imposition or execution of any sentence or sentences imposed hereunder, nor to prohibit the court from exercising its discretion to impose such sentences to run either concurrently with or consecutively to each other or any other sentence or sentences previously imposed upon the defendant.
MS Code § 99-7-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-3. Formal or technical words not necessary

 The words "force and arms" or the words "contrary to the form of the statute," or any other merely formal or technical words, shall not be necessary in an indictment if, without them, the offense be certainly and substantially described.
MS Code § 99-7-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-5. Allegations of time; want of perfect venue

 An indictment for any offense shall not be insufficient for omitting to state the time at which the offense was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offense, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offense to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment, or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened, nor for the want of a proper or perfect venue.
MS Code § 99-7-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-7. How instruments pleaded

 Whenever it shall be necessary to make an averment in an indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists wholly or in part in writing, print, figures, or characters, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof.
MS Code § 99-7-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-9. Presentment; entry on minutes of court; warrant to issue; copy of indictment to be served on defendant; informing victim as to status of charge

 All indictments and the report of the grand jury must be presented to the clerk of the circuit court by the foreman of the grand jury or by a member of such jury designated by the foreman, with the foreman's name endorsed thereon, accompanied by his affidavit that all indictments were concurred in by twelve (12) or more members of the jury and that at least fifteen (15) were present during all deliberations, and must be marked "filed," and such entry be dated and signed by the clerk. It shall not be required that the body of the grand jury be present and the roll called. An entry on the minutes of the court of the finding or presenting of an indictment shall not be necessary or made, but the endorsement by the foreman, together with the marking, dating, and signing by the clerk shall be the legal evidence of the finding and presenting to the court of the indictment. Unless the party indicted be in custody or on bond or recognizance entry of the indictment otherwise than by its number shall not be made at any time or for any purpose on the minutes or on any docket, nor shall any publicity be given to the fact of the existence of the indictment; but it shall never be made an objection to the indictment that it was improperly entered on the minutes or docket. A warrant for the person indicted shall immediately issue and be served on the person so indicted. After the arrest of the person indicted, and prior to arraignment, a copy of the indictment shall be served on such person.   Nothing contained herein, however, shall be construed to prohibit a prosecutor with knowledge of the status of a criminal charge from informing the victim, or, if the victim be deceased, a member of the immediate family of the victim, named in an indictment or in an application for an indictment as to the status of said charge at any time, consistent with established rules of court.
MS Code § 99-7-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-11. Concurrence of twelve grand jurors required for finding

 The concurrence of twelve of the grand jurors shall be necessary to the finding of an indictment or making a presentment.
MS Code § 99-7-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-13. Secret record book; accused may be tried on copy made from record book

 The clerk of the circuit court shall, within ten days after the adjournment of each term of court, record the indictments returned into court in a well-bound book to be kept for that purpose which shall be styled "Secret Record of Indictments," and which shall be properly indexed and kept secret. If the office of the clerk be furnished with an iron safe or vault, the book shall be kept therein when not in actual use. If an indictment be lost or destroyed, the accused may be tried on a certified copy of the indictment made from the said record-book.
MS Code § 99-7-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-15. Authority to inspect indictment limited to certain officers until arrest made

 An indictment returned into the clerk of the circuit court, shall not be inspected by any person but the judge, clerk, district attorney, and sheriff, until the defendant shall have been arrested or has entered into bail or recognizance for the offense.
MS Code § 99-7-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-17. Dilatory pleas; must be verified by oath

 A plea in abatement, or other dilatory plea to an indictment, shall not be received, unless the same be verified by the oath of the defendant.
MS Code § 99-7-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-19. Dilatory pleas; amendment of indictment or information

 An indictment or information shall not be abated by reason of any misnomer or dilatory plea; but in such case the court shall forthwith cause the same to be amended according to the proof, and proceed as though such plea had not been pleaded; and an indictment shall not be held insufficient for want of, or imperfection in, the addition of any defendant.
MS Code § 99-7-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-21. Demurrers; when filed; amendment of indictment

 All objections to an indictment for a defect appearing on the face thereof, shall be taken by demurrer to the indictment, and not otherwise, before the issuance of the venire facias in capital cases, and before the jury shall be impaneled in all other cases, and not afterward. The court for any formal defect, may, if it be thought necessary, cause the indictment to be forthwith amended, and thereupon the trial shall proceed as if such defect had not appeared.
MS Code § 99-7-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-23. Motions to quash

 All objections to an indictment for any defect dehors the face thereof, presenting an issue to be tried by the court, shall be taken by motion to quash the indictment, and not otherwise, within the time allowed for demurrer, and with the right to amend, as provided in the last preceding section.
MS Code § 99-7-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-25. Amendment where name of unknown defendant is discovered

 If any indictment describes a defendant as a person whose name is to the jurors unknown, and it afterward appears that at the time of finding the bill his name was known, the court may order the indictment to be amended according to the fact.
MS Code § 99-7-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 7 - Indictment|§ 99-7-27. Gambling or gaming

 In an indictment for gambling or gaming it shall be sufficient to charge the general name or description of the game at which the defendant may have played, without setting forth or describing with or against whom he may have bet or played; and an objection shall not be sustained to any such indictment for any defect or want of form, but the court shall proceed to give judgment according to the very right of the case.