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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 99 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 19 - JUDGMENT, SENTENCE, AND EXECUTION
IN GENERAL
§ 99-19-23 - Sentence; credit for time of prisoner's pre-trial or pre-appeal confinement
MS Code § 99-19-23 (2015) What's This?
The number of days spent by a prisoner in incarceration in any municipal or county jail while awaiting trial on a criminal charge, or awaiting an appeal to a higher court upon conviction, shall be applied on any sentence rendered by a court of law or on any sentence finally set after all avenues of appeal are exhausted.
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