Miss. Code § 97-17-47

Current through 4/29/2024

Section 97-17-47 - Larceny; severing crops, or parts of improvements or enclosures

If any person shall sever from the soil of another any produce growing thereon, or shall sever from any building, gate, fence, railing, or other improvement or enclosure any part thereof, and shall take and convert the same to his own use with intent to steal the same, he shall be guilty of larceny in the same manner and of the same degree as if the article so taken had been severed at some previous and different time and shall be punished based on the value of the property involved according to the schedule in Sections 97-17-41 and 97-17-43.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(69); 1857, ch. 64, art. 194; 1871, § 2655; 1880, § 2905; 1892, § 1178; 1906, § 1256; Hemingway's 1917, § 986; 1930, § 1014; 1942, § 2246.

Amended by Laws, 2014, ch. 457, HB 585, 18, eff. 7/1/2014.