MS · jury_instructions
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3733
Home Repair Fraud - By Causing Damage to Property - Second Offense
[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. [Name of defendant] was previously convicted of ________________________ [specify
violation of § 97-23-103] in _____________ [list court and details of previous conviction] on
__________ [list date of previous conviction],
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 3733 (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
b1b74f6e975d6997bea043d4b8c8bf6e4639c94b2a46867245b66f0b62bcd184
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.