Michael James Brown v. State of Mississippi

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Michael J. Brown was the attorney for the guardianship of DeMon McClinton, during which time he embezzled and/or mismanaged more than, $1.2 million, much of it in Hinds County, where the guardianship and ward were located. He gave $550,000 of that guardianship money to Linus Shackelford as “loans” from the guardianship, the transactions for said loans culminating in Rankin County. Brown was convicted on two counts of embezzlement in Rankin County for making those “loans” with guardianship funds. Becatlse the trial court did not commit reversible error during…