Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-27-19 (2026)
Food sales; meat; sale of flesh of dead, diseased, and unclean animals; punishment
✓ current as of July 2026
If any person shall sell or offer for sale as human food, the flesh of any animal which shall have died a natural death, or been killed or injured by any accident; or shall sell, or offer for sale, or ship for sale, as human food, the flesh of any diseased animal, or of any dog, cat, or other like unclean animal, such person shall be fined, on conviction, not less than one hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than thirty days.
Codes, 1892, § 1264; 1906, § 1339; Hemingway's 1917, § 1073; 1930, § 1102; 1942, § 2338.
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). “1102 Code of 1930 (presently Miss. Code Ann. 97-27-19) makes it a crime for any person to sell as human food the flesh of any animal which died a natural death, or which has been killed by accident, or the flesh of any diseased animal.”
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