Section 99-7-1 - Indictment may charge offenses according to common law or statute

Offenses at common law, indictable and punishable by special statutory provision, may be indicted as described or charged according to the common law or according to the statute, and, on conviction, the offenders shall be punished as prescribed.Codes, 1857, ch. 64, art. 357; 1871, § 2864; 1880, § 3099; 1892, § 1453; 1906, § 1526; Hemingway's 1917, § 1288; 1930, § 1313; 1942, § 2561.