State v. Purkey

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of embezzlement by a jury in the Hawkins County Criminal Court and sentenced to serve not less than three (3) years nor more than three (3) years in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred Eighteen Dollars and forty-eight cents ($50,818.48), the amount embezzled. He was also found guilty on two counts of failure, as a county official, to deposit county funds in accordance with T.C.A. § 5-8-207. He was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail on each of the two misdemeanor counts concurrently with the penitentiary sentence.