Title 97, Crimes

(1) A person is guilty of hazing in the first degree when, in the course of another person’s initiation into or affiliation with any organization, he intentionally or recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of physical injury to such other person or a third…

(1) (a) Any person who purposefully engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person, or who makes a credible threat, and who knows or should know that the conduct would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her own safety, to fear for the safety of another per…

(1) A person is guilty of a drive-by shooting if he attempts, other than for lawful self-defense, to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury purposely, knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life by…

(1) Whenever a person under eighteen (18) years of age is unlawfully in possession of a firearm, the firearm shall be seized and, after an adjudication of delinquency or conviction, shall be subject to forfeiture. (2) Whenever a person under eighteen (18) years of age unlawfully …

(1) All vehicles which are used in any manner to facilitate the discharging of a firearm or the throwing or ejection of a bomb or explosive device in violation of Section 97-3-109 shall be subject to forfeiture, however:(a) No conveyance used by any person as a common carrier in …

Sections 97-3-113, 97-3-115 and 97-3-117 shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Carjacking Act of 1993.”

(a) The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(a) “Carjacking” means taking of a motor vehicle from another person’s immediate actual possession knowingly or recklessly by force or violence, whether agai…

(1) Whoever shall knowingly or recklessly by force or violence, whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, or attempting to do so, or by any other means shall take a motor vehicle from another person’s immediate actual possess…

Sections 97-3-119 through 97-3-119.5 shall be known and may be cited as “Walker’s Law.”

(a) As used in Sections 97-3-119 through 97-3-119.5, the following words have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise:(a) “Adult” means a person eighteen (18) years or older.(b) “Minor” means any person under eighteen (18) years of age at the tim…

(a) A person commits the offense of sexual extortion if the person intentionally threatens, including through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, to release, exhibit or distribute a private image of another in order to compel or attempt to compel the victim to…

(1) A person commits the offense of aggravated sexual extortion if the person intentionally threatens, including through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, to release, exhibit or distribute a private image of another in order to compel or attempt to compel th…

The youth court may order as a condition of sentencing behavioral health counseling from an appropriate agency or provider for any juvenile adjudicated under Sections 97-3-119 through 97-3-119.5.

For the purposes of venue under the provisions of Sections 97-3-119 through 97-3-119.5, any violation of Sections 97-3-119 through 97-3-119.5 may be prosecuted in the county in which the communication originated, the county in which the communication was made, the county in which…

Every person or officer who maliciously sends to or confines in a psychiatric hospital or institution or other place, any sane person as a person with mental illness, knowing the person to be sane, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of no…

(1) The killing of a human being by the act, procurement or omission of another shall be justifiable in the following cases:(a) When committed by public officers, or those acting by their aid and assistance, in obedience to any judgment of a competent court;(b) When necessarily c…

(a) The killing of any human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another shall be excusable:(a) When committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent;(b) When committed by acci…

(1) The killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner shall be murder in the following cases:(a) When done with deliberate design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any human being, shall be first-degree murder;(b) When done in t…

(1) The following shall be classified as crimes of violence:(a) Driving under the influence as provided in Sections 63-11-30(5) and 63-11-30(12)(d);(b) Murder and attempted murder as provided in Sections 97-1-7(2), 97-3-19, 97-3-23 and 97-3-25;(c) Aggravated assault as provided i…

(1) Except as otherwise provided for a juvenile offender in subsection (2) of this section, every person who is:(a) Convicted of first-degree murder shall be sentenced by the court to imprisonment for life in the custody of the Department of Corrections.(b) Convicted of second-de…

Every person who shall, by previous appointment, agreement, or understanding made in this state, fight a duel without the jurisdiction of this state, and, in so doing, shall inflict a wound upon his antagonist or any other person, whereof the person thus injured die within this s…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person convicted of manslaughter shall be fined in a sum not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or both, or in the custody of the Department of Corrections no…

The killing of a human being without malice, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such other is engaged in the perpetration of any felony, except those felonies enumerated in Section 97-3-19(2)(e) and (f), or while such other is attempting to commit a…

The killing of a human being without malice, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such other is engaged in the perpetration of any crime or misdemeanor not amounting to felony, or in the attempt to commit any crime or misdemeanor, where such killing w…

(1) Any person wilfully and knowingly causing, by means of any instrument, medicine, drug or other means whatever, any woman pregnant with child to abort or miscarry, or attempts to procure or produce an abortion or miscarriage shall be guilty of a felony unless the same were don…

Every person who shall unnecessarily kill another, either while resisting an attempt by such other person to commit any felony, or to do any unlawful act, or after such attempt shall have failed, shall be guilty of manslaughter.

The involuntary killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such human being is engaged in the commission of a trespass or other injury to private rights or property, or is engaged in an attempt to commit such injury, shall be mansla…

The killing of a human being, without malice, in the heat of passion, but in a cruel or unusual manner, or by the use of a dangerous weapon, without authority of law, and not in necessary self-defense, shall be manslaughter.

(1) For purposes of the offenses enumerated in this subsection (1), the term “human being” includes an unborn child at every stage of gestation from conception until live birth and the term “unborn child” means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, wh…

If any physician or other person, while in a state of intoxication, shall, without a design to effect death, administer or cause to be administered, any poison, drug, or other medicine, or shall perform any surgical operation on another, which shall cause the death of such other …

(1) It shall be unlawful for any physician performing an abortion that results in the delivery of a living child to intentionally allow or cause the child to die. (2) If the child is viable, such child shall be immediately provided appropriate medical care and comfort care necess…

Any person navigating any boat or vessel for gain, who shall wilfully or negligently receive so many passengers, or such quantity of lading, that by means thereof such boat or vessel shall sink or overset, and thereby any human being shall be drowned or otherwise killed, shall be…

If any captain, engineer, or any other person having charge of a steamboat or railroad engine connected with a car or cars used for the conveyance of passengers; or if the engineer or other person having charge of the boiler of such boat or engine, or of any other apparatus for t…

If the owner of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensity, wilfully suffer it to go at large, or shall keep it without ordinary care, and such animal, while so at large, or not confined, kill any human being who shall have taken reasonable precautions to avoid the animal, such…

Every other killing of a human being, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, and without authority of law, not provided for in this title, shall be manslaughter.

A person who wilfully, or in any manner, advises, encourages, abets, or assists another person to take, or in taking, the latter’s life, or in attempting to take the latter’s life, is guilty of felony and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not e…

A person who sells, lends, gives away, or in any manner exhibits, or offers to sell, lend, or give away, or has in his possession with intent to sell, lend, or give away, or advertises or offers for sale, loan or distribution any instrument or article, or any drug or medicine, fo…

(1) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the meaning herein ascribed unless the context otherwise clearly requires:(a) “Child” means a person under the age of fourteen (14) years at the time a violation of this section is alleged to have occurred.(b) “…

(1) Selling, buying, offering to sell and offering to buy a child or an unborn child is prohibited and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not t…

Any person who, without lawful authority and with or without intent to secretly confine, shall forcibly seize and confine any other person, or shall inveigle or kidnap any other person with intent to cause such person to be confined or imprisoned against his or her will, or witho…

Sections 97-3-54 through 97-3-54.9 may be known and cited as the Mississippi Human Trafficking Act.

(1) (a) A person who coerces, recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides or obtains by any means, or attempts to coerce, recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide or obtain by any means, another person, intending or knowing that the person will be subjected to forced labo…

The Office of the Attorney General is authorized to establish a program to fund victim service providers that offer shelter, counseling, medical needs, transitional housing and other related services to victims of human trafficking and victims of commercial sexual exploitation at…

(1) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the “Victims of Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Fund.” The administration and regulation of the fund shall be vested in the Office of the Attorney General, and shall consist of:(a) Monie…

(1) To qualify for funds under the program authorized in Sections 97-3-54.10 through 97-3-54.13, a shelter must meet all of the following requirements:(a) Be incorporated in the state or recognized by the Secretary of State as a private or public nonprofit corporation. Such corpo…

(1) Any employee, contractor, volunteer or agent of a human trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation shelter receiving funds under Sections 97-3-54.10 through 97-3-54.13, or of any other entity in possession of information which would tend to identify a victim of human traff…