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Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-1 Indictment may charge offenses according to common law or statute
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Offenses at common law, indictable and punishable by special statutory provision, may be indicted as described or charged according to the common law or according to the statute, and, on conviction, the offenders shall be punished as prescribed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-11 Concurrence of twelve grand jurors required for finding
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The concurrence of twelve of the grand jurors shall be necessary to the finding of an indictment or making a presentment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-13 Secret record book; accused may be tried on copy made from record book
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The clerk of the circuit court shall, within ten days after the adjournment of each term of court, record the indictments returned into court in a well-bound book to be kept for that purpose which shall be styled “Secret Record of Indictments,” and which shall be properly indexed…
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-15 Authority to inspect indictment limited to certain officers until arrest made
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An indictment returned into the clerk of the circuit court, shall not be inspected by any person but the judge, clerk, district attorney, and sheriff, until the defendant shall have been arrested or has entered into bail or recognizance for the offense.