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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 4102

Unlawfully Possessing a Still

activein force · 2012-06-30 – presentas-observed

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

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] unlawfully [owned/controlled/possessed] a distillery, also called a "still,"

or any part of a still; and

3. When [name of defendant] unlawfully [owned/controlled/possessed] the still, or any part of the

still, the still was not:

A. Used exclusively for the distillation of rosin products; or

B. Used exclusively for the distillation of water; or

C. Kept and lawfully used in a laboratory; or

D. Used exclusively for the distillation of ethyl alcohol for fuel purposes only; or

E. Possessed by law enforcement officers to be disposed of according to law; or

F. Possessed by [name of defendant] in order to be delivered to law enforcement officers

to be disposed of according to law,

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 _____.

History

Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 4102 (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: 9290b1beded3d29a70f2402163a3b76b208541bfb1687e1cebc0e2f2e934918b

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