If any person shall willfully and unlawfully shoot or discharge any pistol, shotgun, rifle or firearm of any nature or description into any dwelling house or any other building usually occupied by persons, whether actually occupied or not, he shall be guilty of a felony whether or not anybody be injured thereby and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term not to exceed ten (10) years, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine, within the discretion of the court.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-37-29
Shooting into dwelling house
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 977 So. 2d 329 - Boyd v. State (2008)
Most recently applied in Richard Rosebur v. State of Mississippi (April 2017)
Codes, 1942, § 2086.5; Laws, 1966, ch. 387, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved May 20, 1966
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