If any person shall fraudulently appropriate personal property or money which has been delivered to him on deposit, or to be carried or repaired, or on any other contract or trust by which he was bound to deliver or return the thing received or its proceeds, on conviction, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than ten years, or be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or either.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-23-25
Embezzlement; property held in trust or received on contract
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 586 So. 2d 786 - Reid v. Mississippi State Bar (1991)
Most recently applied in 984 So. 2d 1050 - Salts v. State (April 2008)
Codes, 1880, § 2785; 1892, § 1061; 1906, § 1139; Hemingway’s 1917, § 867; 1930, § 892; 1942, § 2118.
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