MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 99-19-47. Commitment to penitentiary; form.

The following form, to be furnished by the county, shall be used in transmitting the required data:

"Commitment of ------ (insert name of person)

Circuit Court, County of ----.

To the Mississippi Department of Corrections:

You are hereby notified that at the ---- term, 19-, of the circuit court, Judge ----- presiding, the following named person was tried, convicted and sentenced to a term in the State Penitentiary, as follows:
Name ___________________________________ Alias __________________________
Date of sentence _______________________ Crime __________________________
Term of sentence _______________________ Sex ____________________________
Race ___________________________________ Appealed _______________________
Remarks:
Give brief summary of crime committed.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Dated ______, 19__. __________________ Clerk."

SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1281; 1930, Sec. 1306; 1942, Sec. 2549; Laws, 1912, ch. 147; 1991, ch. 379 Sec. 2, eff from and after passage (approved March 15, 1991).


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