MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 97-29-59. Unnatural intercourse.

Every person who shall be convicted of the detestable and abominable crime against nature committed with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than ten years.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(20); 1857, ch. 64, art. 238; 1871, Sec. 2701; 1880, Sec. 2968; 1892, Sec. 1321; 1906, Sec. 1396; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1139; 1930, Sec. 1170; 1942, Sec. 2413.


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