The writ of habeas corpus shall extend to all cases of illegal confinement or detention by which any person is deprived of his liberty, or by which the rightful custody of any person is withheld from the person entitled thereto, except in the cases expressly excepted.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-43-1
To what cases the writ extends
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 600 So. 2d 951 - Bubac v. Boston (1992)
Most recently applied in Wilson v. Midland County (September 2024)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 65, art. 1 (1, 18); 1857, ch. 48, art. 2; 1871, § 1396; 1880, § 2519; 1892, § 2226; 1906, § 2445; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2011; 1930, § 1914; 1942, § 2…
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.