2017 Mississippi Code
Title 99 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 25 - Forms
§ 99-25-17. Search warrant and capias
"The State of Mississippi.
"To any lawful officer of ____ County:
- "Oath having been made before the undersigned, a justice of the peace of
said county, that a box of candles and a case of brogan shoes, the property of
Edward Nolly, on or about the ____ day of ____ 1906, in said county, were
feloniously taken, stolen, and carried away and that suspicion rests on Samuel
Miller as guilty of said crime, and affiant has reason to believe and does
believe that the said stolen articles, or some of them, are concealed in or
about the dwelling house, or outhouses connected therewith, of the said Samuel
Miller, in said county:
"We command you, with the necessary assistance, to enter into the said
dwelling house of Samuel Miller, and the outhouses connected therewith, and
there diligently search for the said goods and chattels; and if the same, or
any part thereof, be found, that you bring them, and also the body of said
Samuel Miller, forthwith before the undersigned, or some other justice of the
peace, to be disposed of according to law.
"Witness my hand, the ____ day of ____ , 1906.
"Andrew Sims, J.P."
- "Oath having been made before the undersigned, a justice of the peace of
A search warrant may be only to search for stolen goods, and omit the command to arrest the person.
