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KNIGHT v. STATE EX REL. MOORE

No. 90-CA-0568.

574 So.2d 662 (1990)

Joseph Andrew KNIGHT, Spinn-It Corporation, Metro Charities, Inc., Robert M. Malone, Billie F. Pettus, Larry Pettus, One and One Care Center, Inc., Desoto Amvets Post Number 1988, Roy L. Sills, Rosemary Sills, Amvets Post No. 1 and Bonnie Sanders v. STATE of Mississippi, ex rel., Mike MOORE, Attorney General and Mississippi State Tax Commission.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 21, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne L. Hengen, Hengen & Hengen, Biloxi, Michael Farrell, Wells Moore Simmons Stubblefield & Neeld, Jackson, Peter L. Doran, Baton Rouge, La., W.E. Gore Jr., Jackson, J. Edward Rainer, Rainer Hyche & Toney, Brandon, Gerald W. Chatham, Hernando, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., James L. Warren, III, Timothy L. Waycaster, Waycaster & Warren, Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves over twenty defendants whose bingo1 operations were "shut down" because Hinds County Chancellor W.O. Dillard struck down a statute2 "exempting" bingo from a constitutional prohibition of lotteries:

No lottery shall ever be allowed, or be advertised by newspapers, or otherwise, or its tickets be sold in this state; and the...

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