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Miss. Code Ann. § 99-9-27 (2026)

Uniform witness attendance law; short title

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Sections 99-9-27 through 99-9-35 may be cited as "uniform law to secure the attendance of witnesses from without the state in criminal cases."

Codes, 1942, § 1892; Laws, 1938, ch. 261.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 1978–2015 · leading case: Thorson v. State, 653 So. 2d 876 (Miss. 1994).
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Thorson v. State, 653 So. 2d 876 (Miss. 1994). · cites it 4× “Mississippi has such an agreement, set forth in Miss. Code Ann. § 99-9-27 , et seq. (1972).”
Ronk v. State, 172 So. 3d 1112 (Miss. 2015). · cites it 2× “See Miss.Code Ann. §§ 99-9-27 to 99-9-37 (Rev.”
Nelson v. State, 626 So. 2d 121 (Miss. 1993). · cites it 2× “Miss. Code Ann. § 99-9-27 et seq. (1972); 725 ILCS 220/1 (1993), formerly, Ill.”
James Nealy v. Donald A. Cabana, Superintendent of Mississippi State Penitentiary, 764 F.2d 1173 (5th Cir. 1985). “For these reasons, the decision of the district court denying Nealy’s petition for writ of habeas corpus is REVERSED, and the case is REMANDED to the district court for entry of an order granting the writ unless the state shall again commence proceedings against Nealy within a…”
Wilson v. State, 390 So. 2d 575 (Miss. 1980). “She was not subpoenaed to appear before the trial and no effort to procure her presence was made under our Uniform Witness Attendance Law: Mississippi Code Annotated § 99-9-27, et seq. (1972). Early in our jurisprudence in Dominges v.”
Crumpton v. Owen, 376 So. 2d 641 (Miss. 1979). · cites it 2× “Appellee undertook to procure orders from the Indiana court to force certain witnesses, Cynthia Gish, Debbie Hutchcraft Driskill, and Kenneth Eugene McCamish, under authority of section 99-9-33, one of several sections which section 99-9-27 says may be cited as "[U]niform law to…”
Timothy Robert Ronk v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 2015). · cites it 2× “See Miss. Code Ann. §§ 99-9-27 to 99-9-37 (Rev.”
Sullivan v. State, 364 So. 2d 277 (Miss. 1978). · cites it 2× “The record in this regard is incomplete. In order to insure justice, however, we have to look at what we do have in the record.”
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