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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3414
Burglary - Breaking an Interior Door in a Dwelling House
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with burglary.
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 legally in a dwelling house, which was owned by [name of owner]
and located at __________________________ [specify address of dwelling house]; and
3. Then [name of defendant] unlawfully broke an interior door inside the dwelling house,
intending to commit the crime of __________________ [specify the alleged crime],
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, “broke” means any act or force, however slight, used to enter through
any usual or unusual place of entry, whether open, partly open, or closed.
In this instruction, “dwelling house” means [a/an] apartment, building, house, or room
which the owner considers to be [his/her] dwelling or in which [he/she] intends to live. Any
building or structure connected to a dwelling house is considered part of the dwelling house.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3414 (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
973bf97b47b9ff624d2d81a2d4b5b2023f9fb56a2d200a599fc1702a99210eaf
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