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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3703
Embezzlement - Evidence of Debt
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with embezzlement.
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 embezzled ____________ [specify evidence of debt], which
was negotiable at delivery, but had not been delivered or issued, to [his/her] own use by putting
the ____________ [specify evidence of debt] into circulation,
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 in count ___.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3703 (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
279982e8726c38e1a5cdf6b0843657dd591d841979ae7a97b8ce21e0073242be
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