Mississippi Model Jury Instructions- Criminal
CHAPTER 3 DEFINITIONS (A-L)

323 Deadly Weapon

A deadly weapon is an object, article, or means which, when used as a weapon under the existing circumstances, is reasonably capable or likely to produce death or serious bodily harm to another person.

Sources

Mississippi Model Jury Instruction – Criminal 3:12.

Davis v. State, 530 So. 2d 694, 699 (Miss. 1988) (Approving a jury instruction which stated that a deadly weapon may be defined as any object, article or means which, when used as a weapon is, under the existing circumstances, reasonably capable or likely to produce death or serious bodily harm to a human being upon whom the object, article or means is used as a weapon).

 

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