2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 99 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 5 - Bail.
99-5-21 - Bond good though it does not describe offense.

§ 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. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 368; 1871, § 2873; 1880, § 3042; 1892, § 1395; 1906, § 1467; Hemingway's 1917, § 1225; 1930, § 1247; 1942, § 2490.
 

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