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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3510
Producing a Child with the Intent to Take an Inheritance
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with producing a child with the intent to
take an inheritance.
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] fraudulently produced an infant; and
3. [Name of defendant] unlawfully and falsely pretended that the infant was the child of [name of
parents], whose child was entitled:
A. To a part of a personal estate, intending to [get/intercept] the distribution of the
personal property from someone legally entitled to it; or
B. To inherit real estate, intending to [get/intercept] the inheritance of the real estate from
someone legally entitled to it,
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 3510 (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
4fae03e0fc1ac3fb7d9dbec4650727bfe3cd48ae5177a7b7849d0af95fc06303
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