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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3417
Burglary - Breaking and Entering a Place of Worship
[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
church, synagogue, temple, or other place of worship] owned by [name of owner] and located at
__________________________ [specify address], 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 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 place of worship listed in § 97-17-33].
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3417 (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
13a3c0235ac0ade1b30975bb30f8aedcf3265b92328efef5325967f2c8698fed
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