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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 326
Depraved Heart
Acting with a depraved heart is when a person acts in a highly dangerous way which
shows that the person does not care for the safety of human life. Even if someone does not intend
to kill any particular person, [he/she] can still be guilty of murder if [he/she] acts with a depraved
heart, a person is killed as a result.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 326 (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
530de687ea778220ffc90fbb87c94f86e978245a6af96f3a30aedac035f3fea2
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