Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another, and, in such assumed character, shall receive any money or valuable property of any description, intended to be delivered to the individual so personated, shall, upon conviction, be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as for feloniously stealing the money or property so received.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-19-35
False personation; personating another to receive money or property
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 511 So. 2d 119 - Mississippi State Bar v. ATTORNEY L (1987)
Most recently applied in 511 So. 2d 119 - Mississippi State Bar v. ATTORNEY L (July 1987)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(50); 1857, ch. 64, art. 102; 1871, § 2566; 1880, § 2808; 1892, § 1083; 1906, § 1163; Hemingway’s 1917, § 890; 1930, § 916; 194…
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