Every person who shall be convicted of the detestable and abominable crime against nature committed with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than ten years.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-59
Unnatural intercourse
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
Most recently applied in – State v. Williams – (January 2020)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(20); 1857, ch. 64, art. 238; 1871, § 2701; 1880, § 2968; 1892, § 1321; 1906, § 1396; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1139; 1930, § 1170; 1…
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