Legal Opinion
Moody v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided June 11, 1998No. 93-KA-00998-SCTPublished
1Opinion of the Court
716 So.2d 562 (1998)
Mary Ann MOODY
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 93-KA-00998-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
June 11, 1998.
Thomas Gene Clark, Laurel, for Appellant.
Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Jeffrey A. Klingfuss, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for Appellee.
En Banc.
BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. Here we consider the question of whether a standard practice of extracting a set fine from persons accused of writing bad checks on the pain of suffering a full criminal prosecution for failure to do so comports with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the…
Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.
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- Tate v. ShortSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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