Officers and others who make arrests as authorized or required by law, shall not be liable on account thereof, civilly or criminally, notwithstanding it may appear that the party arrested was innocent of any offense.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-3-23
No liability for legal arrest
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 799 So. 2d 1 - Whitten v. Cox (2000)
Most recently applied in Lee v. MGM Resorts Mississippi, Inc. (February 2016)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 280; 1871, § 2780; 1880, § 3030; 1892, § 1379; 1906, § 1451; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1208; 1930, § 1231; 1942, § 2474.
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.