Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3722

[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with unlawfully possessing a recording

without proper identification with intent to sell.

If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that:

1. On or about [date of alleged crime], in __________ County;

2A. [Name of defendant] unlawfully possessed [a/an] ____________ [specify the recorded article

or device, including phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device

on which sounds or images may be recorded], which contained images, without the actual name

and street address of the manufacturer prominently [disclosed/displayed] on the __________

[specify cover, jacket, box, or label] containing the ____________ [specify the recorded article

or device, including phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device

on which sounds or images may be recorded], intending to [sell/rent/distribute/circulate] for

[money/compensation];

OR

2B. [Name of defendant] unlawfully possessed [a/an] ____________ [specify the recorded article

or device, including phonograph record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device

on which sounds or images may be recorded], which contained only sounds, without the actual

name and street address of the manufacturer and without the name of the performer or group

prominently [disclosed/displayed] on the __________ [specify cover, jacket, box, or label]

containing the ____________ [specify the recorded article or device, including phonograph

record, tape, disc, videocassette, film, or other article or device on which sounds or images may

be recorded], intending to [sell/rent/distribute/circulate] for [money/compensation],

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 ___.

Definition(s) in this Instruction:

In this instruction, “manufacturer” means an individual, partnership, corporation or

association which, after having acquired the right to transfer sounds or images from the owner,

actually transferred or caused the transfer of such sounds or images to be recorded onto a

phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, videocassette, film or other article on which sounds or

images are recorded; or assembled and transferred a product containing such transferred sounds

or images.