Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-13 (2026)
Bigamy; definition; penalty
✓ current as of July 2026
Every person having a husband or wife living, who shall marry again, and every unmarried person who shall knowingly marry the husband or wife of another living, except in the cases hereinafter named, shall be guilty of bigamy, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(1); 1857, ch. 64, art. 28; 1871, § 2505; 1880, § 2721; 1892, § 975; 1906, § 1051; Hemingway's 1917, § 779; 1930, § 795; 1942, § 2019.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 2007–2018 · leading case: Estes v. State, 546 S.W.3d 691 (Tex. Crim. App. 2018).
Estes v. State, 546 S.W.3d 691 (Tex. Crim. App. 2018). “§ 16-15-10 (1962) ; Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-13 (1942) ; Mich.”
Christopher Joseph Cummins v. Leah Jordan Goolsby, 255 So. 3d 1257 (Miss. 2018). “See Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-13 (Rev. 2014). And now he argues this very condition-or the failure thereof-is what entitles him to the rings.”
Butt v. State, 986 So. 2d 981 (Miss. Ct. App. 2007). “" Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-13 (Rev.2006). David contends that this language prohibits only the actual marriage ceremony and not the cohabitation in a bigamous relationship.”
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