State v. Coon

HAMLIN, Justice.

The defendant, John E. Coon, was indicted by the Grand Jury for the Parish of East Baton Rouge for a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:138, Public Pay Roll Fraud, “in that he, a public official, in his capacity as State Fire Marshal in charge of the State Fire Marshal’s Office, carried or permitted to be carried directly upon the employment list or payroll of said Office the name of Gibson 0. Kimberlin as an employee of his office, specifically as a Deputy Fire Marshal I, and paid said employee for services rendered as a Deputy Fire Marshal I, with knowledge that such employee was…