MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 99-7-19. Dilatory pleas; amendment of indictment or information.

An indictment or information shall not be abated by reason of any misnomer or dilatory plea; but in such case the court shall forthwith cause the same to be amended according to the proof, and proceed as though such plea had not been pleaded; and an indictment shall not be held insufficient for want of, or imperfection in, the addition of any defendant.

SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 267; 1871, Sec. 2804; 1880, Sec. 3011; 1892, Sec. 1353; 1906, Sec. 1425; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1181; 1930, Sec. 1205; 1942, Sec. 2448.


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