MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 1-3-5. Crime.

The term "crime," when used in any statute, shall mean any violation of law liable to punishment by criminal prosecution.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 8 (26); 1857, ch. 64, art. 349; 1871, Sec. 2856; 1880, Sec. 3105; 1892, Sec. 1502; 1906, Sec. 1576; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1343; 1930, Sec. 1366; 1942, Sec. 674.


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