The words “force and arms” or the words “contrary to the form of the statute,” or any other merely formal or technical words, shall not be necessary in an indictment if, without them, the offense be certainly and substantially described.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-3
Formal or technical words not necessary
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 921 So. 2d 275 - Mixon v. State (2005)
Most recently applied in Shelton v. King (March 2008)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 65, art. 2(65); 1857, ch. 64, art. 7; 1871, § 2884; 1880, § 3001; 1892, § 1351; 1906, § 1423; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1179; 1930, § 1203; 1942, § 2446.
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.