{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-15-15","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-15","heading":"Appointment of counsel for indigents.","body":"When any person shall be charged with a felony, misdemeanor punishable by confinement for ninety (90) days or more, or commission of an act of delinquency, the court or the judge in vacation, being satisfied that such person is an indigent person and is unable to employ counsel, may, in the discretion of the court, appoint counsel to defend him.\nSuch appointed counsel shall have free access to the accused who shall have process to compel the attendance of witnesses in his favor.\nThe accused shall have such representation available at every critical stage of the proceeding against him where a substantial right may be affected.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 15. Pretrial Proceedings","In General"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.99.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:13Z","sha256":"862dcf943ad807026c3dfc57f51d0a190f8708e3d33e6f937019f7d561b0748a","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-15-11","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-15-17","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."}