{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-9-9","heading":"Bribery; taking reward for compounding or concealing crime punishable by less than life imprisonment.","body":"Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of any offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for any other term than for life, who shall take any money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement or promise therefor, upon any agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, to compound or conceal any such crime, or to abstain from any prosecution therefor, or to withhold any evidence thereof shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding three years, or in the county jail not exceeding six months.","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":"760f756ff75750aec4abf4f66191bacde93a74b881be592c12ce8c84e7e05744","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-9-10","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."}