WARREN COUNTY BD. OF EDUC. v. WILKINSON

No. 56035.

500 So.2d 455 (1986)

WARREN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION v. Alexandra Renee WILKINSON, a Minor, By and Through Her Next Friend and Father, John C. WILKINSON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 10, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. James Chaney, Jr., Teller, Chaney & Rector, Vicksburg, for appellant.

Mark W. Prewitt, Prewitt & Johnson, Vicksburg, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.


GRIFFIN, Justice, for the Court:

"But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully."1

This case has as its genesis the loss of all credit for a semester as a result of a minor indiscretion by a 16-year-old sophomore attending Warren Central Senior High School. The conduct of the school officials epitomizes the misuse of good law. What we have to say in this case shall not be interpreted as condemnation of any individual...

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