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Code · Mississippi · Title 97. Crimes · Article 1. General Provisions.

§ 97-21-17. Counterfeiting: possession of counterfeit currency with intention to utter.

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Every person who shall have in his possession any counterfeit of any currency, which shall be at the time current in this state, knowing the same to be counterfeited, with intention to defraud or injure, by uttering the same, as true or false, or by causing the same to be so uttered, shall be guilty of forgery.
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