97-9-71 - Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-9-71. Property subject to seizure; refusing or failing to point out to officers.
 

If any person shall have in his possession or under his control personal property of any kind subject to seizure by virtue of any legal process in the hands of any state or federal law enforcement officer, as the property of another or as subject to such process, and shall refuse or omit to point out such property to such officer on his demanding it, and to permit him to take possession of it, he shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than the value of such property, nor more than double such value, or to imprisonment in the county jail not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1880, § 2981; 1892, § 1223; 1906, § 1299; Hemingway's 1917, § 1032; 1930, § 1063; 1942, § 2295; Laws,  1993, ch. 547, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved April 15, 1993).