Mississippi Code § 97-23-23

Embezzlement; buying or receiving embezzled goods
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Every person who shall buy or in any way receive any money, goods, rights in action, or other valuable security, effects, or property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, taken or secreted contrary to law, on conviction thereof, shall suffer the penalty provided in Section 97-17-70 , for receiving stolen property. Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(61); 1857, ch. 64, art. 84; 1871, § 2549; 1880, § 2784; 1892, § 1060; 1906, § 1138; Hemingway's 1917, § 866; 1930, § 891; 1942, § 2117; Laws, 1993, ch. 359, § 3, eff. 7/1/1993.
Every person who shall buy or in any way receive any money, goods, rights in action, or other valuable security, effects, or property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, taken or secreted contrary to law, on conviction thereof, shall suffer the penalty provided in Section 97-17-70 , for receiving stolen property. Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(61); 1857, ch. 64, art. 84; 1871, § 2549; 1880, § 2784; 1892, § 1060; 1906, § 1138; Hemingway's 1917, § 866; 1930, § 891; 1942, § 2117; Laws, 1993, ch. 359, § 3, eff. 7/1/1993.
Every person who shall buy or in any way receive any money, goods, rights in action, or other valuable security, effects, or property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, taken or secreted contrary to law, on conviction thereof, shall suffer the penalty provided in Section 97-17-70 , for receiving stolen property. Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(61); 1857, ch. 64, art. 84; 1871, § 2549; 1880, § 2784; 1892, § 1060; 1906, § 1138; Hemingway's 1917, § 866; 1930, § 891; 1942, § 2117; Laws, 1993, ch. 359, § 3, eff. 7/1/1993.
Every person who shall buy or in any way receive any money, goods, rights in action, or other valuable security, effects, or property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, taken or secreted contrary to law, on conviction thereof, shall suffer the penalty provided in Section 97-17-70 , for receiving stolen property.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(61); 1857, ch. 64, art. 84; 1871, § 2549; 1880, § 2784; 1892, § 1060; 1906, § 1138; Hemingway's 1917, § 866; 1930, § 891; 1942, § 2117; Laws, 1993, ch. 359, § 3, eff. 7/1/1993.

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