{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-1-1-23","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 1-1-23","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 1-1-23","body":"An offense committed, and a penalty or forfeiture incurred, previous to the time when the Mississippi Code of 1972 shall take effect, and an indictment or prosecution for any offense, or for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture, pending at the time when the Mississippi Code of 1972 shall take effect, shall not be affected by its adoption; but all such offenses, penalties, and forfeitures shall remain subject to the laws in force before the Mississippi Code of 1972 shall take effect, except that all the proceedings had thereafter shall be conducted according to the provisions thereof, and except that when any punishment, penalty, or forfeiture shall have been mitigated by the provisions of the Mississippi Code of 1972, such provisions may be applied to any judgment to be pronounced after the Mississippi Code of 1972 shall take effect.","path":["MS Code","Title 1"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"e91a38e50f6989ea5517918420344980c575086b8c7c4d313afff650f9f7fae0","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-1-1-22","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-1-1-24","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}