Bill Text: MS HB626 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [HB626 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-HB626-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Currie
House Bill 626
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-3-79, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PENALTY FROM LIFE TO NOT LESS THAN TEN YEARS TO LIFE WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL IS CONVICTED OF ARMED ROBBERY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 97-3-79, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
97-3-79. Every person who
shall feloniously take or attempt to take from the person or from the presence
the personal property of another and against his will by violence to his person
or by putting such person in fear of immediate injury to his person by the
exhibition of a deadly weapon shall be guilty of robbery and, upon conviction,
shall be imprisoned for not less than ten (10) years nor more than life
in the State Penitentiary if the penalty is so fixed by the jury; and in cases
where the jury fails to fix the penalty at imprisonment for life in the State
Penitentiary the court shall fix the penalty at imprisonment in the State
Penitentiary for any term not less than * * * ten (10) years.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.
