Whenever it shall be necessary to make an averment in an indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists wholly or in part in writing, print, figures, or characters, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof.
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-7-7
How instruments pleaded
Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 264; 1871, § 2801; 1880, § 3015; 1892, § 1358; 1906, § 1430; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1186; 1930, § 1210; 1942, § 2453.
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