99-11-35 - No acquittal for defects of form. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 99-11-35. No acquittal for defects of form.
 

A person shall not be acquitted or discharged in a criminal case, before verdict, for any irregularity or informality in the pleadings or proceedings; nor shall any verdict or judgment be arrested, reversed or annulled after the same is rendered, for any defect or omission in any jury, either grand or petit, or for any other defect of form which might have been taken advantage of before verdict, and which shall not have been so taken advantage of. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 2(65); 1857, ch. 64, art. 7; 1871, § 2884; 1880, § 3001; 1892, § 1341; 1906, § 1413; Hemingway's 1917, § 1168; 1930, § 1193; 1942, § 2436.