{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-27-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-27-3","heading":"Taking testimony and filing for delivery to grand jury.","body":"When said mayor or justice shall be ready to take the testimony of a witness or witnesses so summoned he may do so on private examination or in public, or he may admit such persons as he may deem advisable, but all the testimony so taken shall be in writing and subscribed to under oath administered by said justice, and any witness swearing falsely shall be guilty of and punished for perjury. The testimony so taken shall be filed with the circuit clerk of the county on or before the first day of the circuit court thereafter, and by such clerk delivered to the foreman of the grand jury.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 27. Proceedings for Intoxicating Beverage Offenses"],"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":"3e224674c90bcb4ad3a9e8c147b83b7cbcbb64b4285eb18649c58404f028fa1f","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-27-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-27-5","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."}