When it shall appear to the committing court or the court before which any person charged with a criminal offense has given bail to appear is insufficient or excessive in any respect, the court may (i) after a hearing, order the issuance of a revised mittimus reducing the previously set bail; or (ii) order the issuance of process for the arrest of such person, and may, after a hearing, require him to give bail as may be ordered, and, in default thereof, may commit him to jail as in other cases.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-5-13
Court may make adjustments to excessive or insufficient bail
Codes, 1880, § 3051; 1892, § 1402; 1906, § 1475; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1233; 1930, § 1255; 1942, § 2498; Laws, 2016, ch. 496, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2016.
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