97-17-47 - Larceny; severing crops, or parts of improvements or enclosures. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 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 inclosure 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. 
 

Sources: 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.