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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3511
Receiving Deposits When Bank is Insolvent - Officer or Employee
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with receiving deposits into an insolvent
bank.
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] was an __________ [specify employee or officer] of [name of bank]; and
3. [Name of defendant] unlawfully received a deposit from [name of depositor], knowing or
having reason to know that [name of bank] was insolvent,
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, “insolvent” means that the bank did not have enough cash to pay its
debts.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3511 (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
fa0329faf2f4e75c490d557c0de081b0cf2c0df64b6076e141daa49b396f3721
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