Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-21-29 (2026)
Making and uttering instrument in own name under pretense that it is act of another of same name
✓ current as of July 2026
If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud, make any instrument in his own name, intended to create, increase, discharge, defeat, or diminish any pecuniary obligation, right or interest, or to transfer or affect any property whatever, and shall utter and pass it under the pretense that it is the act of another who bears the same name, he shall be guilty of forgery and shall be punished according to the schedule in Section 97-21-33.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(41); 1857, ch. 64, art. 123; 1871, § 2587; 1880, § 2833; 1892, § 1112; 1906, § 1193; Hemingway's 1917, § 923; 1930, § 950; 1942, § 2180.
Amended by Laws, 2014, ch. 457, HB 585, 24, eff. 7/1/2014.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2001–2003 · leading case: City of Jackson v. Brister, 838 So. 2d 274 (Miss. 2003).
City of Jackson v. Brister, 838 So. 2d 274 (Miss. 2003). “Miss.Code Ann. § 97-21-29 (Rev. 2000) states: If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud, make any instrument in his own name, intended to create, increase, discharge, defeat, or diminish any pecuniary obligation, right or interest, or to transfer or affect any…”
City of Jackson, Mississippi v. Rebecca F. Brister (Miss. 2001). “Miss. Code Ann. § 97-21-29 (Rev. 2000) states: If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud, make any instrument in his own name, intended to create, increase, discharge, defeat, or diminish any pecuniary obligation, right or interest, or to transfer or affect any…”
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