Bucklew v. State

206 So.2d 200 (1968)

Henry BUCKLEW

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 44616.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 22, 1968.

Quitman Ross, Laurel, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of attempted embezzlement from the Circuit Court of Jones County, Mississippi, wherein the mayor of the City of Laurel was fined in the amount of $816.05. The testimony in this case shows that sometime in the summer of 1965 Henry Bucklew, the mayor of Laurel, Mississippi, called a representative…