The court may, in its discretion, exclude all persons from the court room during the trial except the officers of the court, attorneys engaged in the case, parties to the suit and the witness being examined.
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-5-21
Exclusion of spectators from courtroom
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In re Memphis Publishing Co. (2001)
Most recently applied in In re Memphis Publishing Co. (October 2001)
Codes, 1880, § 1166; 1892, § 1571; 1906, § 1679; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1421; 1930, § 1419; 1942, § 2741.
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.