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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2816
Sexual Intercourse with a Cohabitating Partner’s Child
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ____ with having sexual intercourse with
[his/her] cohabitating partner’s child.
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] and [name of cohabitating partner] were living together as husband and
wife; and
3. [Name of defendant] unlawfully had [carnal knowledge/sexual intercourse] with [name of
child], who was [name of cohabitating partner]’s child and who was more than 14 years old, but
less than 18 years old, and was younger than [name of defendant],
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 2816 (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
c9e2b098aef171fc3286e7ea6c7645c6e4583e1cc37001b31382c7ef5e5a9162
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