ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI.
DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court.
¶ 1. Without authorization, a deacon of Pillow Chapel Missionary Baptist Church ("Pillow Chapel") in Greenwood, wrote church checks to himself. He was indicted, tried, and convicted under Mississippi's embezzlement statute, Miss.Code Ann. Section 97-23-19 (Rev.2004) ("Embezzlement Statute"). The question presented is whether the deacon was indicted and tried under the correct statute....
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