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CUMBEST v. STATE

No. 53799.

456 So.2d 209 (1984)

Lum CUMBEST v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 16, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Hammond, Jr., Moss Point, William Liston, Liston, Gibson & Lancaster, Winona, for appellant.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

HAWKINS, Justice, for the Court:

Lum Cumbest and Dale Coleman were convicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of perpetrating a fraud upon Jackson County in violation of Miss. Code Ann. § 97-11-31 and each sentenced to a term of four (4) years in the Department of Corrections, with three (3) years suspended.

Cumbest was supervisor of District Number One, and Coleman was a road foreman of that district.

Coleman did not prosecute an appeal...

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