Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-29 (2024)
Escape of prisoners; aiding escape of felons generally; rescuing prisoners from custody
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Every person who shall, by any means whatever, aid or assist any prisoner lawfully detained in the penitentiary, or in any jail or place of confinement for any felony, in an attempt to escape therefrom, whether such escape be effective or not, or who shall forcibly rescue any prisoner held in legal custody upon any criminal charge, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 5(14); 1857, ch. 64, art. 87; 1871, § 2552; 1880, § 2792; 1892, § 1070; 1906, § 1150; Hemingway's 1917, § 877; 1930, § 903; 1942, § 2132.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1987–1990 · leading case: Suan v. State, 511 So. 2d 144 (Miss. 1987).
Suan v. State, 511 So. 2d 144 (Miss. 1987). “Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-29 (1972). On March 27, 1986, the case was called for trial in Circuit Court sitting in Mendenhall, Mississippi.”
Robinson v. State, 566 So. 2d 1240 (Miss. 1990). “1986); and (3) aiding another in attempted escape, Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-29 (1972). He was indicted as an habitual offender Miss.”
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