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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-21-59: Uttering counterfeit instrument or coin.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 97. Crimes
- Chapter 21. Forgery and Counterfeiting
- Article 1. General Provisions.
Every person who shall be convicted of having uttered or published as true, and with intent to defraud, any forged, altered, or counterfeit instrument, or any counterfeit gold or silver coin, the forgery, altering, or counterfeiting of which is declared by the provisions of this chapter to be an offense, knowing such instrument or coin to be forged, altered, or counterfeited, shall suffer the punishment herein provided for forgery, pursuant to Section 97-21-33.
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