Bass v. State

328 So.2d 665 (1976)

Tommy Ray BASS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 48841.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 16, 1976.

Dale & Upton, Columbia, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Billy L. Gore, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SUGG, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice:

Tommy Ray Bass was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Lawrence County of embezzlement of 7.84 cords of pine pulpwood of the value of $234.50, the property of Monticello Forest Products Corporation. He was sentenced to serve a term of five years in the state penitentiary, but…