Miss. Code § 97-19-35

Current through the 2024 Regular Session

Section 97-19-35 - False personation; personating another to receive money or property

Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another, and, in such assumed character, shall receive any money or valuable property of any description, intended to be delivered to the individual so personated, shall, upon conviction, be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as for feloniously stealing the money or property so received.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(50); 1857, ch. 64, art. 102; 1871, § 2566; 1880, § 2808; 1892, § 1083; 1906, § 1163; Hemingway's 1917, § 890; 1930, § 916; 1942, § 2146.