EDWARDS v. STATE

No. 55511.

469 So.2d 68 (1985)

Jimmy Wayne EDWARDS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing May 22, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Arthur Hewitt, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Charles W. Maris, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, P.J., and DAN M. LEE and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

The question in this case is whether proof of delivery of a check made payable to two parties and endorsed by each of those parties, without more, is sufficient, in the context of a criminal prosecution for food stamp fraud, to establish that one of the parties received any given portion of the face amount of the check. The question becomes outcome-determinative in that proof of the amount in fact received by defendant is an essential...

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