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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3736
Possessing Retail Sales Receipts with the Intent to Defraud
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with possessing retail sales receipts or
universal product codes with intent to defraud.
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 15 or more retail sales receipts or universal
product code labels, intending to cheat or defraud a retailer;
OR
2B. [Name of defendant] unlawfully possessed a device to [manufacture/make] fraudulent retail
sales receipts or universal product code labels, intending to cheat or defraud a retailer,
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 3736 (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
232e1ac95f01093eadebb8a99f133f970db12a5f480395f3e6dfd7fd576e3044
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