97-21-17 - Coins; possession of counterfeit gold or silver coin with intention to utter. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-21-17. Coins; possession of counterfeit gold or silver coin with intention to utter.
 

Every person who shall have in his possession any counterfeit of any gold or silver coin, which shall be at the time current in this state, knowing the same to be counterfeited, with intention to defraud or injure, by uttering the same, as true or false, or by causing the same to be so uttered, shall be guilty of forgery. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(38); 1857, ch. 64, art. 121; 1871, § 2585; 1880, § 2831; 1892, § 1110; 1906, § 1191; Hemingway's 1917, § 921; 1930, § 948; 1942, § 2177.