Purvis v. State

Pope, Chief Judge.

Defendant Carol Purvis, Ph.D., was employed as Superintendent of the Clarke County School District. In 1991 the authorities discovered that certain funds belonging to the school system had been diverted by two assistant superintendents, John M. Benton and Bernie L. Stills, to what amounted to a “slush fund” which was used, in part, for entertainment and other unauthorized expenditures. Dr. Purvis was the beneficiary of some of these expenditures. Accordingly, Benton, Stills and Dr. Purvis were indicted for violating the Georgia RICO Act, OCGA § 16-14-1 et seq. The indictment…