If any state officer or any county officer, or an officer in any district or subdivision of a county, or an officer of any city, town or village, or a notary public, or any other person holding any public office or employment, or any executor, administrator or guardian, or any trustee of an express trust, any master or commissioner or receiver, or any attorney at law or solicitor, or any bank or collecting agent, or other person engaged in like public employment, or any other person undertaking to act for others and intrusted by them with business of any kind, or with money, shall unlawfully convert to his own use any money or other valuable thing which comes to his hands or possession by virtue of his office or employment, or shall not, when lawfully required to turn over such money or deliver such thing, immediately do so according to his legal obligation, he shall, on conviction, be committed to the department of corrections for not more than twenty (20) years, or be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-25
Embezzlement; officers, trustees and public employees converting property to own use
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case McClendon v. City of Columbia (2002)
Most recently applied in 178 So. 3d 1234 - Michael James Brown v. State of Mississippi (November 2015)
Codes, 1880, § 2787; 1892, § 1063; 1906, § 1141; Hemingway’s 1917, § 869; 1930, § 894; 1942, § 2120; Laws, 1979, ch. 508, § 13, eff from and after November 15, 1979 (the United …
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