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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3823
Assault with Intent to Commit Airplane Piracy - By Use of a Deadly Weapon
[Name of defendant] is charged in count ___ with assault with intent to commit airplane
piracy by use of a deadly weapon.
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. Intending to seize or exercise control of an airplane within the State of Mississippi's airspace,
[name of defendant] unlawfully [employed/used] a dangerous or deadly weapon to
[intimidate/threaten/assault/batter] [name of person], who was a member of the flight crew or an
attendant on the airplane, and interfered with [name of person] performing [his/her] duties;
OR
2B. Intending to seize or exercise control of an airplane within the State of Mississippi's airspace,
[name of defendant] unlawfully [employed/used] means capable of [inflicting/causing] serious
bodily injury to [intimidate/threaten/assault/batter] [name of person], who was a member of the
flight crew or an attendant on the airplane, and interfered with [name of person] performing
[his/her] duties,
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 of count _____.
Definition(s) in this Instruction:
In this instruction, “deadly weapon” means an object, article, or means which, when used
as a weapon under the existing circumstances, is reasonably capable or likely to produce death or
serious bodily harm to another person.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 3823 (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
343bca1d27ae8582d6fe34dbccf0efe3c56fd4d5a2dfc768b3eaef48dd297e13
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