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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-99 > 29 > 99-29-5§ 99-29-5. Arrested vagrant to be taken before proper judge for hearing.
Whenever any person shall have been arrested on a charge of vagrancy, he shall immediately be carried before a justice court judge of the county in which the offense occurs, or before the municipal judge of any city, town or village, if said offense occurs within the corporate limits of same, and evidence shall be heard on the charge of his being a vagrant.
Sources: Codes, 1906, § 5058; Hemingway's 1917, § 3335; 1930, § 3475; 1942, § 2669; Laws, 1981, ch. 471, § 56, made eff from and after January 1, 1984, or, with respect to a given county, from and after such earlier date as the county appoints a justice court clerk pursuant to § 9-11-27(3).
