In capital cases the application for change of venue must be made before the drawing of any special venire which is summoned to appear on the day the case is set for trial, or it will be too late, except where the ground on which such application is based occurred after the drawing of such venire.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-43
Change of venue; capital cases
Codes, 1880, § 3065; 1892, § 1415; 1906, § 1488; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1246; 1930, § 1269; 1942, § 2512; Laws, 1985, ch. 443, § 4, eff from and after July 1, 1985.
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.