Chapter II: Section 241: , Article 12, constitution of Mississippi, defining who are

electors:

"Every male inhabitant of the state, except idiots, insane
persons, and Indians not taxed, who is a citizen of the United
States, twenty-one years of age and upwards, who has resided in
the state two years, and one year in the election district * * *
in which he offers to vote and who is duly registered as
provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of
bribery, burglary, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under
false pretence, perjury, embezzlement, or bigamy, and who has
paid on or before the 1st day of February of the year in which
he offers to vote, all taxes which may have been legally
required of him and who shall produce to the officer holding the
election satisfactory evidence that he has paid his taxes."