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2018 Mississippi Code
Title 1 - Laws and Statutes
Chapter 3 - Construction of Statutes
§ 1-3-4. Capital case, capital offense, capital crime, and capital murder.
Universal Citation: MS Code § 1-3-4 (2018)
The terms “capital case,” “capital cases,” “capital offense,” “capital offenses,” and “capital crime” when used in any statute shall denote criminal cases, offenses and crimes punishable by death or imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary. The term “capital murder” when used in any statute shall denote criminal cases, offenses and crimes punishable by death, or imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary.
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