{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-33-9","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 99-33-9","heading":"Trial by jury.","body":"A defendant in a criminal case before a justice court judge where the potential period of incarceration is more than six (6) months in jail, in like manner as in civil cases, may demand a jury, and thereupon the justice shall proceed as in other cases. If the potential of incarceration is less than six (6) months in jail, there shall be no jury trial.","path":["Title 99. Criminal Procedure","Chapter 33. Prosecutions Before Justice Court Judges"],"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":"6511da95b014ca4545ecec4cc434c1449b5ef34b49b888d6d3b9ce2ae472ad37","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-33-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-99-33-13","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."}