{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-5","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-5","heading":"Bribery; jurors, arbitrators, and referees accepting, and person promising them, punished.","body":"If any person drawn, summoned, chosen, or appointed as a juror, arbitrator, or referee shall, corruptly take or receive any gratuity, gift, or reward whatever, or any promise thereof, or if the wife of such person, with his knowledge and consent, shall so take or receive, to influence any verdict, award, or report of such juror, arbitrator, or referee, he shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or in the county jail not more than one year, or fined one thousand dollars, or both, and any person who shall make or offer any such gratuity, reward, or any promise thereof, shall, on conviction, suffer the same penalty.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 9. Offenses Affecting Administration of Justice","Article 1. In General."],"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":"789f4eebb54794561102f78843ec610a69df62dd1deb71ad1c37ea0c55c89378","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-3","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-7","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."}