2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 99 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 1 - General Provisions; Time Limitations; Costs.
99-1-5 - Time limitation on prosecutions.

§ 99-1-5. Time limitation on prosecutions.
 

The passage of time shall never bar prosecution against any person for the offenses of murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, kidnapping, arson, burglary, forgery, counterfeiting, robbery, larceny, rape, embezzlement, obtaining money or property under false pretenses or by fraud, felonious abuse or battery of a child as described in Section 97-5-39, touching or handling a child for lustful purposes as described in Section 97-5-23, sexual battery of a child as described in Section 97-3-95(1)(c), (d) or (2), or exploitation of children as described in Section 97-5-33. A person shall not be prosecuted for conspiracy, as described in Section 97-1-1, or for felonious assistance program fraud, as described in Section 97-19-71, unless the prosecution for such offense be commenced within five (5) years next after the commission thereof. A person shall not be prosecuted for any other offense not listed in this section unless the prosecution for such offense be commenced within two (2) years next after the commission thereof. Nothing contained in this section shall bar any prosecution against any person who shall abscond or flee from justice, or shall absent himself from this state or out of the jurisdiction of the court, or so conduct himself that he cannot be found by the officers of the law, or that process cannot be served upon him. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 2(52); 1857, ch. 64, art. 247; 1871, § 2766; 1880, § 3002; 1892, § 1342; 1906, § 1414; Hemingway's 1917, § 1169; 1930, § 1194; 1942, § 2437; Laws,  1912, ch. 261; Laws, 1989, ch. 567, § 1; Laws, 1990, ch. 412, § 1; Laws, 1993, ch. 440, § 1; Laws,  1998, ch. 582, § 1; Laws, 2003, ch. 497, § 1; Laws, 2004, ch. 539, § 1; Laws, 2008, ch. 530, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2008.