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Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-15: Sentence; felon under age sixteen.

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  1. Title 99. Criminal Procedure
  2. Chapter 19. Judgment, Sentence, and Execution
  3. In General

When the court shall be satisfied that a person who has been found guilty of a felony not capital is not more than sixteen, the punishment imposed may, in the discretion of the court, be imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, instead of imprisonment in the penitentiary.

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