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2015 Mississippi Code
Title 99 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 17 - TRIAL
§ 99-17-33 - Perjury; no variance between "sworn" and "affirmed."

MS Code § 99-17-33 (2015) What's This?

In prosecutions for perjury, where the indictment charges that the defendant was duly sworn at the time he is averred to have testified falsely, it shall not be a variance if the proof show he was affirmed, and vice versa.

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