MS · jury_instructions
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3503
Receiving Money or Goods with the Intent to Defraud - $100.00 or More
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with using a credit card with the intent to
defraud.
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 [received/obtained/got] __________ [specify money, goods,
property, services, or something of value], which [was/were] valued at $100.00 or more, by:
A. Representing that [name of defendant] was the credit card owner without the credit
card owner's consent; or
B. Representing that [name of defendant] was the credit card owner knowing that no
credit card had been issued; or
C. Representing that [name of defendant] was authorized to use the credit card or the
credit card number,
intending to defraud the ____________ [specify credit card owner; credit card issuer; person who
provided the money, goods, property, services, or something of value; or organization which
provided the money, goods, property, services, something of value],
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 3503 (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
b525998cbb1d61bbe66f0bccf467365d78963b28d96bc5cf7e7529a4fe2945a1
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.