Bracey v. State

Citations

• 64 Miss. 17

Syllabus

<p>Ebiih m Omcs. Circuit clerk. Witness certificates. Section 2790, Code of 1880, construed.</p> <p>A circuit clerk is guilty of fraud in office under $ 2790, Code of 1880, which provides that “if any officer or other person employed in any public office in this State shall commit any fraud or embezzlement therein he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary,” etc., if he issue a false and fraudulent witness pay certificate, on its face good in substance, but defective in form.</p>