{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-37-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-37-9","heading":"Deadly weapons; defenses against indictment for carrying deadly weapon.","body":"Any person indicted or charged for a violation of Section 97-37-1 may show as a defense:\n(a) That he was threatened, and had good and sufficient reason to apprehend a serious attack from any enemy, and that he did so apprehend; or\n(b) That he was traveling and was not a tramp, or was setting out on a journey and was not a tramp; or\n(c) That he was a law enforcement or peace officer in the discharge of his duties; or\n(d) That he was at the time in the discharge of his duties as a mail carrier; or\n(e) That he was at the time engaged in transporting valuables for an express company or bank; or\n(f) That he was a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, National Guard, State Militia, Emergency Management Corps, guard or patrolman in a state or municipal institution while in the performance of his official duties; or\n(g) That he was in lawful pursuit of a felon; or\n(h) That he was lawfully engaged in legitimate sports;\n(i) That at the time he was a company guard, bank guard, watchman, or other person enumerated in Section 97-37-7, and was then actually engaged in the performance of his duties as such, and then held a valid permit from the sheriff, the commissioner of public safety, or a valid permit issued by the Secretary of State prior to May 1, 1974, to carry the weapon; and the burden of proving either of said defenses shall be on the accused; or\n(j) That at the time he or she was a member of a church or place of worship security program, and was then actually engaged in the performance of his or her duties as such and met the requirements of Section 45-9-171.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 37. Weapons and Explosives","General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.97.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:07Z","sha256":"568d577e75ac81f689ee476e29044e5ecd176807e739e34ea5b09d67b12cca6f","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-37-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-37-13","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."}