Section 93-9-73 – Dying declarations of mother

May 13, 2021 | Family Law, Mississippi

In all proceedings to determine the parentage of a child when the mother is dead, her declarations in her travail, proved to be her dying declarations, may, on the trial of the case, be received in evidence.

Miss. Code § 93-9-73

Codes, 1892, § 257; 1906, § 276; Hemingway’s 1917, § 225; 1930, § 187; 1942, § 391; Laws, 2011, ch. 376, § 1, eff. 3/14/2011.