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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3017
Bribing a Witness to Commit Perjury
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ____ with bribing a witness to commit perjury.
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] [intentionally/corruptly] and unlawfully [offered/attempted to offer]
____________ [specify value offered] to [name of witness] to commit perjury; and
3A. [Name of witness] was a witness in _______________ [specify court, proceeding, or
hearing];
OR
3B. [Name of witness] was a possible witness in _______________ [specify court, proceeding,
or hearing],
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 ____.
Definition(s) in this Instruction:
In this instruction, “perjury” means a person intentionally makes a false statement under
oath about [a/an] [material/important] matter knowing that the statement is false.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3017 (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
8b98034979be30fc38cb54ea030dc901bc1558b92c84b042745ce124c37fa130
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