2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 9 - Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice.
97-9-3 - Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc.
§ 97-9-3. Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc.
The stealing and carrying away, or fraudulently withdrawing, concealing, or destroying or taking away any record, paper, or proceeding of a court of justice, or any paper or proceeding filed or deposited with any officer or in any public office, shall be larceny without reference to the value of the record, paper, or proceeding so stolen, taken away, or destroyed, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than five years, or in the county jail not more than one year, and by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(70); 1857, ch. 64, art. 195; 1871, § 2656; 1880, § 2906; 1892, § 1179; 1906, § 1257; Hemingway's 1917, § 987; 1930, § 1015; 1942, § 2247.
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