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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3615
Forgery - Counterfeit Railroad Tickets
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with forgery.
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. Intending to defraud, [name of defendant] unlawfully [forged/counterfeited/falsely made] a
railroad passenger ticket, which was [purported/claimed] to be [made/issued] by [name of
railroad company],
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, “railroad passenger ticket” means a ticket, card, pass, certificate, or
paper, providing or intending to provide for transportation of a person upon any railroad.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3615 (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
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