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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3011
Escape - When Serving a Term less than Life
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ____ with escape or attempted to escape.
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] was serving a sentence of ____________ [specify defendant’s sentence
which was less than life imprisonment]; and
3. [Name of defendant] unlawfully [escaped/attempted to escape] by using force or violence
against another person from __________________ [specify the penitentiary],
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 3011 (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
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