MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2016 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Currie
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 not less than
ten (10) years nor more than 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, 2016.