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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3104
Embezzlement - Refusing to Give Records to Successor in Office
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ____ with embezzlement.
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 ____________ [specify official listed in § 97-11-27]; and
3. [Name of defendant] was required by law to [deliver/give] _____________ [specify money,
books, records, papers, or other thing] to [name of successor], [name of defendant]’s successor in
office; and
4. [Name of defendant] [intentionally/willfully] and unlawfully [refused/neglected] to
[deliver/give] the ___________ [specify money, books, records, papers, or other thing] to [name
of successor] when [name of successor] [asked for/demanded] the ___________ [specify money,
books, records, papers, or other thing],
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 3104 (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
757ce3e5aac70d0d8bd84fad04c02cdacf0973874717ed0dd567a9333fc7eecd
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