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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3415
Burglary - Breaking and Entering a Building Other than 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] unlawfully broke into and entered [a/an] _______________ [specify
building or item listed in § 97-17-33] owned by [name of owner] and located at
__________________________ [specify address of building or item], where
[goods/merchandise/equipment] [was/were] kept for [use/sale/deposit/transportation], intending
to steal or 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 into” 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, “entered” means the act of making one’s way into a ____________
[specify building or item listed in § 97-17-33].
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3415 (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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