Offenses at common law, indictable and punishable by special statutory provision, may be indicted as described or charged according to the common law or according to the statute, and, on conviction, the offenders shall be punished as prescribed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-1
Indictment may charge offenses according to common law or statute
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Laveal McGhee v. State of Mississippi (2016)
Most recently applied in Laveal McGhee v. State of Mississippi (November 2016)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 357; 1871, § 2864; 1880, § 3099; 1892, § 1453; 1906, § 1526; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1288; 1930, § 1313; 1942, § 2561.
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