Stupid Laws & Dumb Laws » Mississippi

Shaving in the center of Main Street is unlawful

webmaster — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:08:23 +0000

You’ll need to pick any other street except Main Street to do your grooming.

Having sex in public is not allowed

webmaster — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:05:03 +0000

Would anyone really ignore the call of the wild?Â I think not.

Fornicators and Adulterers = 6 months in jail and/or $500 fine

webmaster — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:33:40 +0000

If you’re not married and living together or having sex with someone other than your spouse, you will receive a 6month prison sentence and/or $500 fine.

97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation.

If any man and woman shall unlawfully cohabit, whether in adultery or fornication, they shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars each, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months; and it shall not be necessary, to constitute the offense, that the parties shall dwell together publicly as husband and wife, but it may be proved by circumstances which show habitual sexual intercourse.

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 1(58); 1857, ch. 64, art. 8; 1871, ï¿½ 2486; 1880, ï¿½ 2700; 1892, ï¿½ 953; Laws, 1906, ï¿½ 1029; Hemingway’s 1917, ï¿½ 754; Laws, 1930, ï¿½ 772; Laws, 1942, ï¿½ 1998.

A man who is sexually aroused in public will spend time in jail

webmaster — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:19:38 +0000

Being a vagrant in Mississippi is punishable by either a $250 fine or 30 days in prison

webmaster — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:15:02 +0000

Most vagrants would probably opt for the 30 days in prison.

97-35-39. Vagrants; penalty for vagrancy; bond.

Whenever any person shall have been convicted of being a vagrant, the justice of the peace or mayor or police justice by whom such person was tried shall commit the person to jail for not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or shall require such person to give bond, with sufficient security, to be approved by said justice or mayor or police justice, in any sum not less than two hundred and one dollars, for the future industry and good conduct of such person for one year from the date of giving of such bond.

Sources: Codes, 1906, 5058; Hemingway’s 1917, 3335; Laws, 1930, 3475; Laws, 1942, 2669.

Teaching others polygamy = illegal

webmaster — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:56:27 +0000

You’ll find yourself in jail if you teach someone what polygamy is.

Promising to marry a woman to seduce her is illegal.

webmaster — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:54:58 +0000

You better follow through with your promise if you plan to seduce a woman in Mississippi.

97-29-55. Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage.

If any person shall obtain carnal knowledge of any woman, or female child, over the age of eighteen years, of previous chaste character, by virtue of any feigned or pretended marriage or any false or feigned promise of marriage, he shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years; but the testimony of the female seduced, alone, shall not be sufficient to warrant a conviction.

Sources: Codes, 1892, 1298; Laws, 1906, 1372; Hemingway’s 1917, 1108; Laws, 1930, 1137; Laws, 1942, 2374; Laws, 1888, p. 89.