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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3007
Escape - Helping a Felon Escape
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with helping a felon escape from a jail,
penitentiary, or other place of confinement.
If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that:
1. On or about [date of alleged crime], in ____________ County;
2A. [Name of defendant] unlawfully helped [name of alleged felon or convicted felon], who was
lawfully imprisoned in ____________ [specify the jail, penitentiary, or place of confinement], to
[escape/attempt to escape];
OR
2B. [Name of defendant] unlawfully freed [name of charged person], who was being lawfully
held in ____________ [specify the jail, penitentiary, or place of confinement],
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 3007 (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
3a703b122350b658be43ae8c5e67014a1b515d02bfa2d14161975e1493319642
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