Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-31-6 (2026)
Legal assistants to district attorney; qualifications; powers and duties; removal
✓ current as of July 2026
Legal assistants to district attorneys shall be regularly licensed and practicing attorneys having been duly admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi, and shall have the power and authority, under the direction and supervision of the district attorney, to perform all of the duties required of that office. Said legal assistants may be removed at the discretion of the duly elected and acting district attorney, or for cause by the senior circuit judge of the district.
Codes, 1942, §§ 3920.8, 3920.9; Laws, 1972, ch. 497, §§ 2, 3; Laws, 1978, ch. 509, § 6, eff. 1/1/1980.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1994–2005 · leading case: Allred v. Webb, 641 So. 2d 1218 (Miss. 1994).
Allred v. Webb, 641 So. 2d 1218 (Miss. 1994). “Webb urged the trial court that since Miss. Code Ann. § 25-31-6 (1972) specifically provides that an assistant district attorney "may be removed at the discretion of the duly elected and acting district attorney, or for cause by the senior circuit judge of the district",…”
Stewart v. Dist. Attorney for the Eighteenth Circuit Court Dist. for the State of Mississippi, 923 So. 2d 1017 (Miss. Ct. App. 2005). “Stewart also argues that the trial court’s grant of the district attorney’s motion for summary judgment was improper in light of Mississippi Code Annotated §§ 25-31-6 (Rev.2003) and 19-25-35 (Rev.2003).”
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