Every person who shall forge or counterfeit the great seal of this state, the seal of any public office or officer authorized by law, the seal of any court of record, the seal of any county, city, town or village, or the seal of any body-corporate, duly incorporated, or who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit any impression purporting to be the impression of any such seal, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of forgery.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-21-47
Seal of state and other government and corporate seals or their impressions
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 531 So. 2d 627 - Rowland v. State (1988)
Most recently applied in 531 So. 2d 627 - Rowland v. State (September 1988)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(24); 1857, ch. 64, art. 109; 1871, § 2573; 1880, § 2819; 1892, § 1095; 1906, § 1176; Hemingway’s 1917, § 906; 1930, § 933; 194…
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