Every person who shall promise, offer or give to any officer, agent or trustee, either public or private, while holding such office, agency or trust, or after he has become a candidate or applicant for the same, any money, goods, chattels, right in action, or other property, real or personal, with intent to influence his vote, opinion, action or judgment on any question, matter, cause or proceeding which may be then pending, or may be thereafter subject to vote, opinion, action or judgment of such officer, agent or trustee, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten (10) years, or fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both, and shall be forever disqualified from holding any public office, trust or appointment, and shall forfeit his office, if any be held.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 5(9); 1857, ch. 64, art. 34; 1871, § 2511; 1880, § 2727; 1892 § 981; 1906, § 1057; Hemingway's 1917, § 785; 1930, § 801; 1942, § 2027; Laws, 1995, ch. 463, § 1, eff. 7/1/1995.
Notes of Decisions
Mississippi State Bar v. Young, 509 So. 2d 210 (Miss. 1987).
· cites it 4× “Such conduct is also unlawful under our state law proscribing offers of inducements to influence public officials' actions in the accomplishment of official acts, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-11 (Supp. 1985); if not bribery, Miss.”
Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37 (1979).
“125 (1968) (enacted 1905); Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-11-11 , 97-11-13 (1973) (enacted 1857); Neb.”
United States v. Whitfield, 590 F.3d 325 (5th Cir. 2009).
“Miss.Code Ann. § 97-11-11 (1972). Specifically, the jury charge read as follows: “In order to prove the scheme to defraud another of honest services through bribery, the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the particular defendant entered into a corrupt…”
Howard v. State, 507 So. 2d 58 (Miss. 1987).
“Howard was charged under MCA § 97-11-11 (1972) which provides, in pertinent part: "Every person who shall .”
Mississippi Bar v. Shelton, 890 So. 2d 827 (Miss. 2003).
· cites it 3× “A formal complaint was filed by the Bar against Shelton on January 23, 2003, based upon Shelton's December 9, 2002, petition to enter a "best interest" plea [1] in the Hinds County Circuit Court, First Judicial District, to charges of bribery brought pursuant to the provisions…”
United States v. Manzo, 851 F. Supp. 2d 797 (D.N.J. 2012).
“17-A §§ 2, 601, 602 (stating that the state bribery statute applies to candidates for electoral office “upon his public announcement of his candidacy”); Miss.Code Ann. §§ 97-11-11, 97-11-13 (prohibiting any person while holding public office "or after he has become a candidate…”
United States v. Jordan, 364 F. Supp. 3d 670 (E.D. Tex. 2019).
“Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-11 (1972)." Whitfield , 590 F.”
Patton v. State, 987 So. 2d 1063 (Miss. Ct. App. 2008).
· cites it 2× “any money . . . with intent to influence his vote, opinion, action or judgment on any question, matter, cause or proceeding which may be then pending, .”
United States v. Whitfield (5th Cir. 2010).
“Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-11 (1972). Specifically, the jury charge read as follows: “In order to prove the scheme to defraud another of honest services through bribery, the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the particular defendant entered into a corrupt…”
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