If any officer, or other person employed in any public office, shall commit any fraud or embezzlement therein, he shall be committed to the department of corrections for not more than ten (10) years, or be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-31
Embezzlement; fraud committed in public office
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Vielee v. State (1995)
Most recently applied in 870 So. 2d 652 - Gulley v. State (February 2004)
Codes, 1880, § 2790; 1892, § 1066; 1906, § 1144; Hemingway’s 1917, § 872; 1930, § 897; 1942, § 2123; Laws, 1979, ch. 508, § 15, eff from and after November 15, 1979 (the United …
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