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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3732
Home Repair Fraud - By Causing Damage to Property - Felony Amount
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with home repair fraud.
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] [intentionally/knowingly] and unlawfully damaged [name of person]'s
property, intending to enter into [a/an] [agreement/contract] for home repair; and
3. The amount of the home repair fraud was more than $5,000.00,
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, “home repair” means fixing, replacing, altering, converting,
modernizing, or improving real property primarily used as a residence, or building or making an
addition to real property primarily used as a residence.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3732 (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
c8314ad195e521ae65238a2bdfc468a603c734f7d6de37740185701b17e9e06d
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