McCullum v. State

487 So.2d 1335 (1986)

Betty McCULLUM

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 55844.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 7, 1986.

Alice Dale Goodsell, John L. Connelly, Jackson, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Leyser Q. Morris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and DAN M. LEE and ROBERTSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

On March 14, 1983, Betty McCullum filed a false affidavit with the Hinds County Food Stamp Office that she had never received her food stamp authorization card and pursuant thereto she obtained an illegal food stamp payment of $569.00. On…