The writ of habeas corpus may be granted by a judge of the Supreme Court, or a judge of the circuit or chancery court, in term time or in vacation, returnable before himself or another judge.
Miss. Code Ann. § 11-43-7
By whom granted
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 615 So. 2d 1134 - Beckwith v. State (1992)
Most recently applied in Sizemore v. Pickett (December 2011)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 65, art. 1 (1); 1857, ch. 48, art. 1; 1871, § 1398; 1880, § 2521; 1892, § 2229; 1906, § 2448; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2014; 1930, § 1917; 1942, § 2818.
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.