99-7-25 - Amendment where name of unknown defendant is discovered. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 99-7-25. Amendment where name of unknown defendant is discovered.
 

If any indictment describes a defendant as a person whose name is to the jurors unknown, and it afterward appears that at the time of finding the bill his name was known, the court may order the indictment to be amended according to the fact. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 263; 1871, § 2800; 1880, § 3014; 1892, § 1357; 1906, § 1429; Hemingway's 1917, § 1185; 1930, § 1209; 1942, § 2452.