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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2624
Aggravated Assault - Recklessly Caused Serious Injury to a Person
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with aggravated assault.
If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that:
1. On or about [date of alleged crime], in ____________ County;
2. [Name of defendant] recklessly and unlawfully [seriously injured/caused serious bodily injury
to] [name of victim] by ___________________________________ [describe defendant’s alleged
actions],
then you shall find [name of defendant] guilty as charged.
If the State did not prove any one of the above listed elements beyond a reasonable doubt,
then you shall find [name of defendant] not guilty of count ___.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2624 (current as of June 30, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
185cb7f147304909ddf42ad1cb2cf23dd4bf9e2bc20817efa602058e58db7757
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