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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 501
Attempt - Abandonment of Intent to Commit Crime
It is a legal defense to the crime of ____________ [specify crime charged] that the
defendant freely and voluntarily abandoned [his/her] intent to commit that crime, and then
[he/she] did not do any act to commit that crime.
If you find beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence in this case that [name of
defendant] freely and voluntarily abandoned [his/her] intent to commit the crime of
____________ [specify crime charged], that [he/she] did not do any act to commit the crime of
____________ [specify crime charged], and that [his/her] abandonment was not caused by
another person or force, then you shall find [name of defendant] not guilty.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 501 (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
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