Bill Text: MS HB685 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-06 - Died In Committee [HB685 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-HB685-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2012 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representatives Currie, Alday, Boyd, Carpenter, Chism, Crawford, Denny, Formby, Massengill, Moore, Nelson, Rushing
House Bill 685
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 97-3-79, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PENALTY FOR 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, 2012.
