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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3507
False Personation to Receive Money or Property
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with false personation.
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 [represented/personated] [himself/herself] falsely to be [name
of person]; and
3. [Name of defendant] using [name of person]’s name received __________ [describe money or
property], which was intended to be delivered to [name of person],
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 3507 (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
68519481b8ec27f7ba45979c2cc375935430c7304ffcd57b3b40aeb511300e3e
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