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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-23-21

Embezzlement; evidence of debt negotiable by delivery but not delivered

Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(60); 1857, ch. 64, art. 83; 1871, § 2548; 1880, § 2783; 1892, § 1059; 1906, § 1137; Hemingway’s 1917, § 865; 1930, § 890; 1942…

Every officer, clerk, agent, or other person mentioned in Section 97-23-19 who shall embezzle or fraudulently secrete, conceal, or convert to his own use, by putting the same in circulation, any evidence of debt negotiable by delivery, but not delivered or issued as a valid instrument, shall be guilty of embezzlement, and punished, on conviction, as provided in the last section.

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