If the attorney general or any district attorney shall, in any manner, consult, advise, counsel, or defend, within this state, a person charged with a crime or misdemeanor or the breach of a penal statute, he shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, be removed from office, and rendered incapable thereafter of filling any office of profit or honor in this state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-3
Attorney general and district attorney not to advise or defend criminals
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case James Stern v. Christopher Epps (2012)
Most recently applied in James Stern v. Christopher Epps (March 2012)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 21, art. 3(6); 1857, ch. 64, art. 69; 1871, § 2714; 1880, § 2758; 1892, § 1227; 1906, § 1303; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1036; 1930, § 1067; 1942, § 2299.
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