{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-103","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-103","heading":"Hindering prosecution or apprehension; definition of “criminal assistance.”","body":"For the purposes of this article, a person “renders criminal assistance” to another if he knowingly:\n(a) Harbors or conceals the other person;\n(b) Warns the other person of impending discovery or apprehension, except that this paragraph (b) does not apply to a warning given in connection with an effort to bring another into compliance with the law;\n(c) Provides or aids in providing the other person with money, transportation, weapon, disguise or other means of avoiding discovery or apprehension;\n(d) Prevents or obstructs, by means of force, deception or intimidation, anyone from performing an act that might aid in the discovery, apprehension, prosecution or conviction of the other person;\n(e) Suppresses, by an act of concealment, alteration or destruction, any physical evidence that might aid in the discovery, apprehension or conviction of the other person;\n(f) Threatens, harasses, or intimidates a witness or a person reasonably expected to be a witness in a criminal prosecution in an effort to prevent the person from testifying, giving evidence or assisting law enforcement in any way;\n(g) Provides false testimony, under oath, to the government about the person’s knowledge or lack of knowledge of any criminal activity or information or investigation;\n(h) Provides false information, under oath, or signs an affidavit with false information exonerating or incriminating another person; or\n(i) Attempts to prevent law enforcement from discovering facts relating to another’s criminal activity or engages in acts designed to interfere with or prevent a law enforcement investigation of another.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 9. Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice","Article 3. Obstruction of Justice."],"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":"6a1b0f4b118b4d1c7a89bf6b2c8c865791da8c94d50992cc190ce670171edc9c","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-101","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-105","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."}