2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting.
97-21-37 - Possession of counterfeit bank notes or other instrument with intention to utter.
§ 97-21-37. Possession of counterfeit bank notes or other instrument with intention to utter.
Every person who shall have in his possession any forged, altered or counterfeited negotiable note, bill, draft, or other evidence of debt issued or purported to have been issued by any corporation or company duly authorized for that purpose by the laws of the United States or of this state, or of any other state, government, or country, or any other forged, altered, or counterfeit, instrument the forgery of which is declared by the provisions of this chapter to be punishable, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or counterfeited, with intention to utter the same as true or as false, or to cause the same to be uttered, with intent to injure or defraud, shall be guilty of forgery.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(36); 1857, ch. 64, art. 120; 1871, § 2584; 1880, § 2830; 1892, § 1109; 1906, § 1190; Hemingway's 1917, § 920; 1930, § 947; 1942, § 2176.
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