All papers read in evidence on the trial of any cause may be carried from the bar by the jury.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-17-37
Papers may be carried out by jury
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995)
Most recently applied in 807 So. 2d 1236 - Pruitt v. State (February 2002)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 61, art. 1(80); 1857, ch. 61, art. 157; 1871, § 639; 1880, § 1712; 1892, § 730; 1906, § 791; Hemingway’s 1917, § 575; 1930, § 584; 1942, § 1528.
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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.