Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-115 (2024)
Mississippi Carjacking Act; definitions
✓ Justia copy: laws through about 2024 (2025 and 2026 sessions missing)
The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
- (a) "Carjacking" means taking of a motor vehicle from another person's immediate actual possession knowingly or recklessly by force or violence, whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, or attempting to do so, or by any other means.
- (b) "Motor vehicle" includes every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, which is self-propelled.
Laws, 1993, ch. 471, § 2, eff. 3/27/1993.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 2000–2017 · leading case: Williams v. State, 772 So. 2d 406 (Miss. Ct. App. 2000).
Williams v. State, 772 So. 2d 406 (Miss. Ct. App. 2000). “Williams contends that the indictment was defective because it did not follow the language used to define the elements of armed carjacking under Miss. Code Ann. §§ 97-3-115 and 97-3-117 (Rev.”
Walters v. State, 932 So. 2d 860 (Miss. Ct. App. 2006). “" Miss.Code Ann. § 97-3-115(a) (Rev.2000). ¶ 9.”
Ross v. State, 87 So. 3d 484 (Miss. Ct. App. 2011). “Mississippi Code Annotated section 47-7-3(l)(d)(ii) states: No person shall be eligible for parole who shall, on or after October 1, 1994, be convicted of robbery, attempted robbery[,] or carjacking as provided in Section 97-3-115 et seq., through the display of a firearm or…”
Christopher A. Darden v. State of Mississippi, 227 So. 3d 1164 (Miss. Ct. App. 2017). “Mississippi law provides that “[n]o person shall be eligible for parole who shall, on or after October 1,1994, be convicted of- robbery, attempted robbery or carjacking as provided in Section 97-3-115 et seq., through the display of a firearm!.”
Robinson v. State, 4 So. 3d 361 (Miss. Ct. App. 2008). “Section 47 — 7—3(d)(ii), however, states: No person shall be eligible for parole who shall, on or after October 1, 1994, be convicted of robbery, attempted robbery or carjacking as provided in Section 97-3-115 et seq., through the display of a firearm or drive-by shooting as…”
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-115(a): 1 case
Walters v. State, 932 So. 2d 860 (Miss. Ct. App. 2006). “" Miss.Code Ann. § 97-3-115(a) (Rev.2000). ¶ 9.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.