Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-27-15 (2026)
Food sales; selling meat of animal not slaughtered, or unwholesome bread or drink
✓ current as of July 2026
Any butcher or other person who shall knowingly sell the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased, or any baker, brewer, distiller, or other person, who shall knowingly sell unwholesome bread or drink, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than five years nor less than one year.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(14); 1857, ch. 64, art. 216; 1871, § 2703; 1880, § 2939; 1892, § 1262; 1906, § 1337; Hemingway's 1917, § 1071; 1930, § 1100; 1942, § 2336.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1984–1984 · leading case: Cumbest v. State, 456 So. 2d 209 (Miss. 1984).
Cumbest v. State, 456 So. 2d 209 (Miss. 1984). “1100 Code of 1930 (presently Miss. Code Ann. 97-27-15) makes it a crime for a "butcher or other person" to sell the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased.”
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