If any indictment describes a defendant as a person whose name is to the jurors unknown, and it afterward appears that at the time of finding the bill his name was known, the court may order the indictment to be amended according to the fact.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-25
Amendment where name of unknown defendant is discovered
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Gerrard v. State (1993)
Most recently applied in Gerrard v. State (May 1993)
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 263; 1871, § 2800; 1880, § 3014; 1892, § 1357; 1906, § 1429; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1185; 1930, § 1209; 1942, § 2452.
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