Any person who knowingly and wilfully opposes or resists any officer or other authorized person in serving or attempting to serve or execute any legal writ or process, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-75
Resisting service of process
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Bousman (1979)
Most recently applied in 468 F. Supp. 2d 854 - Brassell v. Turner (November 2006)
Codes, 1880, § 2975; 1892, § 1221; 1906, § 1297; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1030; 1930, § 1061; 1942, § 2293.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.