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MS Code § 99-17-20 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-20. Capital murder or other crimes punishable by death

 No person shall be tried for capital murder, or any other crime punishable by death as provided by law, unless such offense was specifically cited in the indictment returned against the accused by setting forth the section and subsection number of the Code defining the offense alleged to have been committed by the accused. The judge, in cases where the offense cited in the indictment is punishable by death, may grant an instruction for the state or the defendant which instructs the jury as to their discretion to convict the accused of the commission of an offense not specifically set forth in the indictment returned against the accused. Any conviction of the accused for an offense punishable by death shall not be valid unless the offense for which the accused is convicted shall have been set forth in the indictment by section and subsection number of the Code which defined the offense allegedly committed by the accused.
MS Code § 99-17-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-21. Bribery; certain proof not necessary

 Upon the trial of an indictment for bribery, it shall not be necessary to prove the conviction of any offender, for the offense in relation to which any agreement or understanding, prohibited by sections appearing in Title 97, Mississippi Code of 1972, dealing with bribery, shall have been made.
MS Code § 99-17-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-23. Dueling; offender compelled to testify against another

 If any person offend against any of the provisions of Sections 97-39-1 to 97-39-11, Mississippi Code of 1972, headed Dueling, such person shall be a competent witness against any other person offending in the same transaction, and may be compelled to appear and give evidence in the same manner as other witnesses; but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying, except for perjury in giving such testimony; and the fact that he testified thereof shall be a bar to any prosecution against him for such transaction.
MS Code § 99-17-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-25. Gambling and futures contracts; state not confined to proof of single violation

 On the trial of all indictments for gambling or gaming or operating a bucket-shop or dealing in contracts commonly called "futures," the state shall not be confined in the proof to a single violation, but under the indictment charging a single offense may give in evidence any one or more offenses of the same character committed anterior to the day laid in the indictment and not barred by the statute of limitations; but in such case, after conviction or acquittal on the merits, the accused shall not be again liable to prosecution for any offense of the same character committed anterior to the day laid in the indictment.
MS Code § 99-17-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-27. Gambling and futures contracts; witness compelled to testify; immunity granted; penalty for refusing

 No person shall be excused from attending and testifying before a grand jury, or before any court, or in any cause or proceeding, criminal or otherwise based upon or growing out of any alleged violation of the provisions of law as to gambling or gaming, or as to operating a bucket-shop, or the dealing in contracts commonly called "futures," of which he shall have knowledge, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subject to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the grand jury or any court; provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for perjury in so testifying. Any person who shall neglect or refuse to so attend or testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce books or other documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 99-17-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-29. Lotteries; purchaser of ticket compelled to testify against seller

 The purchaser of any lottery ticket, or device in the nature of a lottery ticket, shall be a competent witness against the person from whom the same was purchased, and may be compelled to testify, but shall thereby be exempted from prosecution for buying or having the same.
MS Code § 99-17-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-31. Offenses affecting legislature; witness denied privilege against self-incrimination

 Upon the trial of a person charged with any of the crimes named and defined in Sections 97-7-45 through 97-7-57, Mississippi Code of 1972, relating to offenses affecting the legislature, a person otherwise competent as a witness shall not be excused from testifying as such concerning the offense charged on the ground that such testimony might criminate him or subject him to public infamy; but such testimony shall not afterward be used against him in any criminal prosecution, except for perjury in giving such testimony, nor shall the punishment of any person for the acts which constitute a violation of either of the said sections by the legislature, or either house thereof, as for a contempt, bar or preclude prosecutions thereunder.
MS Code § 99-17-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-33. Perjury; no variance between "sworn" and "affirmed."

 In prosecutions for perjury, where the indictment charges that the defendant was duly sworn at the time he is averred to have testified falsely, it shall not be a variance if the proof show he was affirmed, and vice versa.
MS Code § 99-17-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-35. Instructions to jury

 The judge in any criminal cause, shall not sum up or comment on the testimony, or charge the jury as to the weight of evidence; but at the request of either party he shall instruct the jury upon the principles of law applicable to the case. All instructions asked by either party must be in writing, and all alterations or modifications of instructions given by the court or refused shall be in writing, and those given may be taken out by the jury on its retirement. The clerk, before they are read or given to the jury, shall mark all instructions asked by either party, or given by the court, as being "given" or "refused," as the case may be, and all instructions so marked shall be a part of the record, on appeal, without a bill of exceptions.
MS Code § 99-17-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-37. Papers may be carried out by jury

 All papers read in evidence on the trial of any cause may be carried from the bar by the jury.
MS Code § 99-17-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-39. Bills of exceptions; duty of judge to sign

 On the trial of prosecutions for any crime or misdemeanor, it shall be the duty of the judge to sign any bill of exceptions tendered by the defendant during the progress thereof, if the truth of the case be fairly stated therein, and the said exceptions shall be a part of the record of such prosecution.
MS Code § 99-17-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-41. Bills of exceptions; when tendered and signed; incapacity of judge

 Bills of exceptions to any ruling of the court, made before the jury retires from the box, must be tendered and signed during the trial, or during the term of the court, and bills of exceptions to judgments overruling motions for new trials must be presented to the judge for his signature during the term or within ten days, or such further time, not exceeding sixty days, as the court may allow, after the end of the term, and must be signed promptly by him if found to be correct. If the death, resignation, or other incapacity of the judge shall prevent him from signing a bill of exceptions, the affidavit of the attorney of record who represented the party tendering the bill of exceptions, and of all of them if more than one, that it correctly states the facts and rulings of the court, shall be received as a substitute for the signature of the judge to it; but in such case, if the state shall file in the supreme court an affidavit that the bill of exceptions is not correct, stating particularly wherein it is not correct, the state may then file any affidavits touching the matter, and the defendant may likewise file any affidavits other than his own up to the time of the call of the case for trial in the supreme court; and said court shall consider and determine, on submission of the case, both as to the truth of the bill of exceptions and the questions involved in what the court may determine to be the bill of exceptions.
MS Code § 99-17-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-43. Bills of exceptions; attorneys may sign if judge refuses

 If the judge shall refuse to sign a bill of exceptions to an opinion, decision, or charge given or made on the trial of any cause or motion, when the bill of exceptions is tendered to him, it shall be lawful for two attorneys at law who may be present at the time of the giving or making of such opinion, decision, or charge, and of the refusal of the judge to sign such bill of exceptions, to sign the same; and the bill of exceptions so signed shall have the same force and effect as if it had been signed by the judge.
MS Code § 99-17-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-45. Bills of exception; amendment

 Bills of exception, with the approval of the trial judge, may be amended at any time before the hearing on appeal, for the purpose of curing omissions, defects, or inaccuracy; but no such amendment shall be made until the parties interested shall have been given five days' notice of such proposed amendment.
MS Code § 99-17-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-47. New trials; terms directed by court; number limited

 Every new trial granted shall be on such terms as the court shall direct. No more than two new trials shall be granted to the same party in any cause.
MS Code § 99-17-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 17 - Trial|§ 99-17-49. New trials; grant or refusal assignable for error

 When a motion for a new trial shall be granted or refused, either party may reduce to writing the reasons offered for said new trial, together with the substance of the evidence in the case, and also the decision of the court on said motion, and tender the same as a bill of exceptions; and it shall be the duty of the judge to allow and sign the same. Such bill of exceptions shall be a part of the record in the cause, and it may embrace the motion, the judgment, or other matters of record. The appellant may assign for error that the court below improperly granted or refused a new trial.
MS Code § 99-18-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-3. Capital Defense Counsel Division created; personnel; appointment to office; qualifications; removal

 There is hereby created the Capital Defense Counsel Division within the Office of the State Public Defender. This office shall consist of a director, sometimes referred to as Capital Defender, who shall be an attorney qualified to serve as lead counsel in death penalty eligible cases and staffed by any necessary personnel as determined and hired by the State Defender. The Capital Defender shall be appointed by the State Defender. The remaining attorneys and other staff shall be appointed by the State Defender and shall serve at the will and pleasure of the State Defender. The Capital Defender and all other attorneys in the office shall be active members of The Mississippi Bar, or, if a member in good standing of the bar of another jurisdiction, must apply to and secure admission to The Mississippi Bar within twelve (12) months of the commencement of the person's employment by the office. The Capital Defender may be removed by the State Defender upon finding that the Capital Defender is not qualified under law, has failed to perform the duties of the office, or has acted beyond the scope of the authority granted by law for the office.
MS Code § 99-18-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-5. Purpose of Capital Defense Counsel Division

 The Capital Defense Counsel Division is created within the Office of the State Public Defender for the purpose of providing representation to indigent parties under indictment for death penalty eligible offenses and to perform such other duties as set forth by law.
MS Code § 99-18-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-7. Duties of division; attorneys appointed to office to be full time

 The Capital Defense Counsel Division shall limit its activities to representation of defendants accused of death-eligible offenses and ancillary matters related directly to death-eligible offenses and other activities expressly authorized by statute. Representation by the division or by other court-appointed counsel under this chapter shall terminate upon completion of trial or direct appeal. The attorneys appointed to serve in the Capital Defense Counsel Division shall devote their entire time to the duties of the division, shall not represent any persons in other litigation, civil or criminal, nor in any other way engage in the practice of law, and shall in no manner, directly or indirectly, engage in lobbying activities for or against the death penalty. Any violation of this provision shall be grounds for termination from employment by the State Defender.
MS Code § 99-18-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-9. Compensation

 The Capital Defense Director appointed under this chapter shall be compensated at no more than the maximum amount allowed by statute for a district attorney, and other attorneys in the office shall be compensated at no more than the maximum amount allowed by statute for an assistant district attorney.
MS Code § 99-18-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-11. Office hours of operation

 The Capital Defense Counsel Division shall be open Monday through Friday for not less than eight (8) hours each day and observe such holidays and closings as prescribed by statute.
MS Code § 99-18-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-13. Powers and duties of State Defender

  The State Defender is hereby empowered to pay and disburse salaries, employment benefits and charges relating to employment of division staff and to establish their salaries and expenses of the office; to incur and pay travel expenses of staff necessary for the performance of the duties of the office; to rent or lease on such terms as he may think proper such office space as is necessary in the City of Jackson to accommodate the staff; to enter into and perform contracts and to purchase such necessary office supplies and equipment as may be needed for the proper administration of said offices within the funds appropriated for such purpose; and to incur and pay such other expenses as are appropriate and customary to the operation of the office.   The State Defender may provide representation to parents or guardians who have been determined by the youth court judge to be indigent and in need of representation in an abuse, neglect or termination of parental rights proceeding or appeal therefrom. Representation may be provided by staff or contract counsel including, but not limited to, by contract with legal services organizations.
MS Code § 99-18-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-15. Director to keep a docket of all indicted death eligible cases in Mississippi

 The Capital Defense Director shall keep a docket of all indicted death-eligible cases originating in the courts of Mississippi which must, at all reasonable times, be open to inspection by the public and must show the county, district and court in which the cause is pending. The director shall prepare and maintain a roster of all death penalty cases in the courts of Mississippi indicating the current status of each case and submit this report to the Governor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Administrative Office of Courts monthly. The director shall also report monthly to the Administrative Office of Courts the activities, receipts and expenditures of the office.
MS Code § 99-18-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 18 - Office of State Public Defender|§ 99-18-17. Conflict of interest; employment of qualified private counsel; payment of fees and expenses; Capital Defense Counsel Fund

  If at any time during the representation of two (2) or more defendants, the State Defender determines that the interests of those persons are so adverse or hostile they cannot all be represented by the staff of the Capital Counsel Division without conflict of interest, or if the State Defender determines that the volume or number of representations shall so require, the State Defender, in his sole discretion, notwithstanding any statute or regulation to the contrary, shall be authorized to employ qualified private counsel. Fees and expenses approved by order of the court of original jurisdiction, including investigative and expert witness expenses of such private counsel, shall be paid by funds appropriated to the Capital Defense Counsel Fund for this purpose.   There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Capital Defense Counsel Fund. The purpose of the fund shall be to provide funding for the Capital Defense Counsel Division. Monies from the funds derived from assessments under Section 99-19-73 shall be distributed by the State Treasurer upon warrants issued by the State Defender. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal-year limitations, and shall consist of:   Monies appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes of funding the Capital Defense Counsel Division;   The interest accruing to the fund;   Monies received under the provisions of Section 99-19-73;   Monies received from the federal government;   Donations; and   Monies received from such other sources as may be provided by law.
MS Code § 99-20-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-1. Short title; purpose

 This chapter shall be known as the Mississippi Community Service Restitution Act. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an alternative method of punishment in cases in which the defendant would have otherwise been sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
MS Code § 99-20-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-3. Participation in community service restitution program

 Any defendant who qualifies for participation as set out in this chapter, shall be entitled to participate in a community service restitution program. Any convicted defendant who, having been sentenced prior to July 1, 1983, and who qualifies for participation in the program herein established, may petition the circuit court of the county of his conviction to be sentenced under the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 99-20-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-5. Qualifications for participation in program

 In order to qualify for participation in a community service restitution program, the defendant must: (a) be a first offender, (b) be convicted of a nonviolent offense that would constitute a felony and (c) not have drug, alcohol or emotional problems so serious that he or she appears unlikely to be able to meet the obligations of the community service sentence.
MS Code § 99-20-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-7. Determining persons eligible for participation; review of district attorney's files

 Department of Corrections personnel shall review the incoming files in the office of district attorney in the circuit court district in which they are operating, to determine which, if any, of the persons charged are eligible for participation in the community service restitution program.
MS Code § 99-20-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-9. Notification of eligible persons; request for sentence to program; recommendations of victim

 When a case appears to meet the eligibility criteria established in Section 99-20-5, the Department of Corrections representative shall notify the district attorney of that district and the defense attorney.   The Department of Corrections representative, the district attorney and the defense attorney shall request the court to sentence the defendant to the community service restitution program. The Department of Corrections representative shall present to the court its basis for requesting the community service sentence. In addition, the victim, if any, of the crime for which the defendant is charged shall be asked to comment in writing as to whether or not the defendant shall be allowed to enter the program. The court shall not be bound by such recommendations.
MS Code § 99-20-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-11. Agreement to and acceptance of sentence by defendant; conditional discharge

 If a determination is made to use the community service sentence, the defendant must agree to and accept the determination.   Any defendant who is sentenced to the community service restitution program shall receive a conditional discharge from the presiding court and shall be sentenced to perform a certain number of hours of unpaid community service, in the sentencing court's discretion.   If a determination is made to use the community service sentence, the defendant must agree to and accept the determination.   Any defendant who is sentenced to the community service restitution program shall receive a conditional discharge from the presiding court and shall be sentenced to perform a certain number of hours of unpaid community service, in the sentencing court's discretion.
MS Code § 99-20-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 99 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 20 - Community Service Restitution|§ 99-20-13. Participant informed of possible criminal sentence; consequences of failure to perform community service sentence

 Upon sentencing to the community service restitution program, the judge shall instruct the defendant as to what the sentence would have been had he or she not been placed in the community service restitution program, and shall inform the defendant as to consequences of failure to perform the community service sentence.