2016 Mississippi Code
Title 19 - Counties and County Officers
Chapter 19 - Constables
§ 19-19-13. Liability for false return

MS Code § 19-19-13 (2016) What's This?

If any constable or other officer make a false return on any execution or other process issued by a justice of the peace, such officer shall forfeit and pay the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($ 200.00), to be recovered against such officer and his sureties by motion before the justice by whom such process was issued, for the use of the party injured by said false return.

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