The Oktibbeha County Court Calendar
Oktibbeha County has no single calendar that lists every court date side by side. The Oktibbeha County Circuit Court information lays out a regular pattern of terms. Justice Court and the municipal courts run their own sessions instead. Electronic access helps with an eligible Circuit Court case. It will not merge these schedules into one docket. Start with whatever notice, citation, or docket entry you have. It names the court, and that detail points you to the right office.
Each court here keeps its own settings. Circuit Court handles felonies and general civil cases. It also takes many appeals from the lower benches. Chancery work sits with the Chancery Clerk. That bench handles estates, land, domestic relations, and equity disputes. Justice Court and the municipal courts schedule separately. Before you call or run a docket search, confirm which court controls the hearing. A request sent to the wrong office just burns time.
Online indexes have limits worth knowing. Some lag behind the paper file. Others omit restricted matters or show an older setting after a hearing has moved. This Oktibbeha County calendar information was last checked August 27, 2026. Verify any date that matters directly with the clerk.
Oktibbeha County Circuit Court Calendar
Oktibbeha County schedules four regular Circuit Court term openings. The terms open the fourth Monday in January, the third Monday in April, the fourth Monday in July, and the third Monday in October. Treat those dates as planning anchors. They do not promise that every case gets called on opening day. A judge may order special motion days or extra sessions, and any given case can carry its own pretrial, hearing, plea, or trial setting on a different date.
The same county material notes that grand juries normally meet twice yearly unless recalled. That pattern tells you nothing about when an indictment, arraignment, or trial will happen. The Oktibbeha County Circuit Court Judges page works well for the recurring schedule, but the Circuit Clerk should verify a particular docket setting.
How to Find Your Court Date
Let the document in hand tell you which court you are in. For an eligible Oktibbeha County Circuit Court filing, the county-linked Delta index can supply a case lead. Registered public users can review qualifying electronic docket material through PAMEC/MEC. Neither path reaches every lower court. Oktibbeha County Justice Court, Maben, and Sturgis offer no official public docket portal. The responsible clerk is the route that works.
- Read the notice, citation, or case number for the court name, case number, and issuing agency. A Starkville citation and a county agency ticket do not follow the same calendar path.
- For Oktibbeha County Circuit Court cases, search the county-linked index or registered MEC/PAMEC access when the record type is eligible. Use the result to identify the case and next listed event, not as a final confirmation.
- Call or visit the responsible clerk. Oktibbeha County Circuit Clerk Tony M. Rook can confirm Circuit Court matters at 662-323-1356; Justice Clerk Shalonda Sykes handles Oktibbeha County Justice Court routing at 662-338-1060.
- For Starkville city matters, contact Municipal Court at 662-323-1491. For Maben or Sturgis, contact the town office and ask for the court date, issuing agency, and copy or payment procedure.
- For a federal matter, use the Northern District calendar and then verify any cancellation or continuance with the Aberdeen Division clerk.
When an online case search comes up empty, go to the counter. The Oktibbeha County Circuit Clerk sits at 108 West Main in the Court Annex, Starkville, and public inspection is open during weekday court hours subject to staff operations. Ask before you travel about a public workstation. The county page does not describe a dedicated terminal.
Oktibbeha County Justice Court Calendar
Oktibbeha County Justice Court covers three local districts on a standing session pattern rather than a searchable countywide online calendar. The county lists criminal court on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Civil court is Wednesday at 9 a.m. Criminal sessions take in misdemeanors, preliminary hearings, initial appearances, felony bond hearings, and matters brought by the Sheriff, Highway Patrol, constables, wildlife officers, and the Motor Carrier Division.
Standing times are not appointments. A case may sit in a particular district, get continued, or land on a different date entirely. The Oktibbeha County Justice Court page names the court and its clerk contacts. Call the criminal or civil desk for a case-specific setting. The civil desk is 662-338-1083. The county lists criminal numbers at 662-324-3040 and 662-324-3032.
Note: A Justice Court bond or preliminary event is not a final Circuit Court disposition, even when the felony case later reaches Circuit Court.
Reading a Court Setting
A setting is simply a scheduled court event. It might be an arraignment, docket call, motion hearing, pretrial conference, trial, or another proceeding. Read every field together. A date and time alone can mislead you if the case sits in a different court, if the entry is a docket call rather than an individual hearing, or if the court later enters a continuance.
| Date | The calendar day assigned to the event. Confirm it after any notice of a reset or special session. |
|---|---|
| Time | The listed start time may be a docket call, meaning several matters begin together, rather than a personal appointment time. |
| Court or location | The court named on the record controls. County locations include Circuit Court at 108 West Main, Justice Court at 104 Felix Long Drive, and Starkville Municipal Court at 110 West Main. |
| Judge | The presiding judge or court assignment helps distinguish settings within a multi-county district. |
| Setting type | The purpose of the event. A setting type does not itself state the outcome of the case. |
Federal calendars spell out the location, date and time, courtroom, judge, case number or title, and purpose. That same field logic works when you confirm a state or local court setting.
Oktibbeha County Court Calendar Terms
Calendar words in Oktibbeha County often describe a stage, not a result. The Sixteenth Circuit's system vocabulary includes labels that tend to sit next to a court date. Treat any label as a prompt to verify the docket and the order, so you do not assume a case has ended or a hearing was cancelled.
- Arraignment Pending
- A system status indicating an arraignment stage is still expected, not a statement of guilt or outcome.
- Bound Over
- A label tied to transfer or preliminary-stage activity; confirm the receiving court and next setting with the clerk.
- Order TBE
- “To be entered” signals an administrative status for an order, not proof that a signed order is already available.
- Trial Pending
- A status label that may appear before a trial date is finally fixed or before later scheduling changes.
A date on the Oktibbeha County court docket means little on its own. Read it next to the current entry and any order that comes after it. For a precise status, ask the clerk who holds the file for the docket sheet and the relevant order.
Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations
Oktibbeha County hearings move for many reasons. A continuance shifts a setting to a new time, and the reset is the replacement date that follows. A cancellation can strip a hearing off the calendar entirely. That still does not end the case. Circuit Court terms can also pick up special motion days or judge-ordered sessions, so the regular quarterly pattern in Oktibbeha County will not answer a case-specific question.
Before acting, read the latest Oktibbeha County notice and the current docket entry. Then call the clerk who keeps the file. Delta itself warns that its online court records are not the official courthouse record. They may lag or run thin. MEC and PAMEC reach only eligible, nonrestricted files. When the online docket shows no update, confirm with the clerk rather than assuming the old court date still stands.
The federal calendar carries a similar label: informational. The Northern District closure notice shows how fast conditions can change even after a calendar has been published.
One notice is about the courthouse; the other is about your case. Checking the building status and the individual setting with the right clerk keeps those two things straight.
Oktibbeha County Municipal Calendar Check
Starkville Municipal Court handles matters inside the city limits. Those include traffic, ordinance cases, and initial, bond, and preliminary functions. The city court page reports four sessions each week. Yet the recurring list runs Monday at 1 p.m. It also shows Wednesday at 2 p.m. and the first and third Thursday at 9 a.m. That mismatch is worth noting. Oktibbeha County court users should confirm a citation's date with the court rather than trust a weekly pattern.
A January 2026 software upgrade at the court was reported complete, with normal operations restored. The Starkville Municipal Court stays the right office for city cases. County and state-agency traffic and misdemeanor matters often land in the county Justice Court instead. Do not assume a Starkville case will surface in Delta or MEC.
The Northern District's court-location maps tell a different story. They show why federal scheduling sits apart from local Mississippi court settings.
The court name and division on the case decide which calendar office to call. Where a party lives does not.
What To Do If You Miss a Setting
Missed an Oktibbeha County setting? Act fast. Keep the notice or citation in hand, find the court and case number, and call the responsible clerk for the current docket status and next step. Circuit Court, Justice Court, and the municipal courts in Oktibbeha County each set their own response to a missed event. An older listing vanishing from an online tool does not mean a new date was assigned.
Missed a Setting? A missed court date can lead to a warrant, bond consequence, or other court action, so confirm the current status with the court that set the hearing.
If represented in the matter, contact counsel as well as the clerk. Follow only the court's current directions for appearing, filing, or seeking a new setting.
For an eligible case number, a follow-up Oktibbeha County case search may reveal a later docket entry. The clerk still gives the confirmation that counts.
Oktibbeha County Federal Calendar Checks
Federal cases never appear on Mississippi state or local court calendars. A matter tied to Oktibbeha County may be heard in the Northern District of Mississippi's Aberdeen Division, with filings through CM/ECF and national searching through PACER. The Oktibbeha County-related Northern District court calendar lists its hearings and fields.
This page comes from a federal calendar source. It is not an Oktibbeha County Circuit or municipal docket. Confirm any continuance or cancellation with the federal court before you travel.
The court's divisional realignment notice adds more federal context. Keep federal dates, locations, and case numbers on the federal calendar path. Keep them separate from the Oktibbeha County court calendar.
That separate route matters when a notice names a federal division, a PACER number, or a Northern District judge. Follow the federal path from there.