Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-33 (2026)

Extortion; collecting unauthorized fees and fees for services not actually rendered

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If any judge, justice court judge, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff's employee, constable, assessor, collector, clerk, county medical examiner, county medical examiner investigator, employee of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, employee of any contractor providing incarceration services or any other officer, shall knowingly demand, take or collect, under color of his office, any money fee or reward whatever, not authorized by law, or shall demand and receive, knowingly, any fee for service not actually performed, such officer, so offending, shall be guilty of extortion, and, on conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or both, and shall be removed from office.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 2(5); 1857, ch. 64, art. 99; 1871, § 2712; 1880, § 2805; 1892, § 1081; 1906, § 1161; Hemingway's 1917, § 888; 1930, § 914; 1942, § 2144; Laws, 1979, ch. 508, § 16; Laws, 1986, ch. 459, § 40; Laws, 1997, ch. 431, § 1; Laws, 1997, ch. 462, § 1, eff. 7/1/1997.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1989–2014 · leading case: Tipton v. State, 41 So. 3d 679 (Miss. 2010).

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Tipton v. State, 41 So. 3d 679 (Miss. 2010). · cites it 44× “See Miss.Code Ann. § 97-11-33 (Rev. 2006). ¶ 17.”

Tipton v. State, 150 So. 3d 82 (Miss. 2014). · cites it 4× “” Miss.Code Ann. § 97-11-33 (Rev. 2014). . In fact, the MDOC had the authority to remove Tipton from house arrest and place him back into a prison facility without holding any type of hearing whatsoever.”

Pennock v. State, 550 So. 2d 410 (Miss. 1989). · cites it 2× “1989), not to mention extortion, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-33 (Supp. 1989). Whatever benefit this crazy quilt may afford, "a slip corner is kept open for thieves to contend, if indicted for .”

Frank Sanders Tipton v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 2007). · cites it 19× “2 Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-33 (Rev. 2006). BACKGROUND FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS ¶2.”

Frank Sanders Tipton v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 2013). · cites it 10× “2010); see Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-33 (Rev. 2006). 2 ¶4.”

State of Mississippi v. Johnny Delaney (Miss. 2009). · cites it 2× “On December 1, 2008, Johnny Delaney, a trooper with the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, was indicted by a Holmes County grand jury for one count of extortion pursuant to Mississippi Code Section 97-11-33 (Rev. 2006). The indictment alleged that Delaney, while acting under…”

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