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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 97 - CRIMES (§§ 97-1-1 — 97-47-9)
Chapter 9 - OFFENSES AFFECTING ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (§§ 97-9-1 — 97-9-129)
Article 1 - IN GENERAL (§§ 97-9-1 — 97-9-79)
- Section 97-9-1 - Court forms and legal process; printing, selling or distributing simulated legal documents prohibited
- Section 97-9-3 - Court records and public papers; stealing, concealing, destroying, etc
- Section 97-9-5 - Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished
- Section 97-9-7 - Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing, etc. crime punishable by death or life imprisonment
- Section 97-9-9 - Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing crime punishable by less than life imprisonment
- Section 97-9-10 - Bribery; commercial bribery
- Section 97-9-11 - Champerty and maintenance; solicitation and stirring up of litigation prohibited
- Section 97-9-13 - Champerty and maintenance; penalty
- Section 97-9-15 - Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of party
- Section 97-9-17 - Champerty and maintenance; affidavit of attorney representing party
- Section 97-9-19 - Champerty and maintenance; penalty for false affidavit
- Section 97-9-21 - Champerty and maintenance; immunity granted witnesses compelled to testify concerning violations; penalty for failure to testify
- Section 97-9-23 - Champerty and maintenance; exceptions; legislative intent
- Section 97-9-25 - Escape of inmates of state institutions; aiding, abetting, etc
- Section 97-9-27 - Escape of prisoners; conveying articles useful for escape to felons
- Section 97-9-29 - Escape of prisoners; aiding escape of felons generally; rescuing prisoners from custody
- Section 97-9-31 - Escape of prisoners; aiding prisoners other than felons generally; conveying article useful for escape
- Section 97-9-33 - Escape of prisoners; aiding escapes from officers
- Section 97-9-35 - Escape of prisoners; permitting escape
- Section 97-9-37 - Escape of prisoners; private persons having custody of prisoner arrested on suspicion
- Section 97-9-39 - Escape of prisoners; refusal of officer, jailer, etc., to arrest or confine; refusal to receive prisoners at jail; suffering an escape; accepting bribe to permit escape
- Section 97-9-41 - Escape of prisoners; concealing or harboring escaped prisoner
- Section 97-9-43 - Escape of prisoners; escapee may be retaken after term expires and imprisoned until tried
- Section 97-9-45 - Escape of prisoners; penalty; willful failure to return to jail after being entrusted to leave
- Section 97-9-47 - Escape of prisoners; penalty for penitentiary convicts serving less than life term; attempt by force or violence
- Section 97-9-49 - Escape of prisoners; penalties for convicts in jail and persons under arrest or custody; willful failure to return to jail after being entrusted to leave
- Section 97-9-51 - [Repealed]
- Section 97-9-53 - Indictments; penalty for disclosing facts relating to indictment
- Section 97-9-55 - Intimidating judge, juror, witness, attorney, etc., or otherwise obstructing justice
- Section 97-9-57 - Officer not to converse with juror; penalty
- Section 97-9-59 - Perjury; definition
- Section 97-9-61 - Perjury; penalty
- Section 97-9-63 - Perjury; subornation of
- Section 97-9-65 - Perjury; bribery to procure
- Section 97-9-67 - Picketing or demonstrating in or near courthouse or residence of judge, juror, witness, or court officer
- Section 97-9-69 - Property levied on; removing without authority
- Section 97-9-71 - Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers
- Section 97-9-72 - Fleeing or eluding a law enforcement officer in a motor vehicle; felonies; sanctions; defenses
- Section 97-9-73 - Resisting or obstructing arrest; fleeing or eluding law enforcement officer in motor vehicle
- Section 97-9-75 - Resisting service of process
- Section 97-9-77 - Wills; alteration, destruction or secretion
- Section 97-9-79 - Misdemeanor; false information
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