Title: In Re Cooksey
Citation: 515 So. 2d 957
Docket Number: 58539
State: Mississippi
Issuer: Mississippi Supreme Court
Date: November 18, 1987

515 So. 2d 957 (1987) In re Inquiry Concerning a Justice Court Judge Robert C. COOKSEY. No. 58539. Supreme Court of Mississippi. November 18, 1987. Luther T. Brantley, III, Jackson, for petitioner. J.P. Coleman, Ackerman, for respondent. *958 En Banc. PER CURIAM. This matter is before the Court upon the motion of the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance (hereinafter "Commission") for approval of recommendations with respect to its Inquiry Concerning a Judge, No. 86-101, to-wit: Justice Court Judge Robert C. Cooksey, together with the written Response of Judge Cooksey filed with the Court. By virtue thereof, it appears as follows: 1. That pursuant to a complaint filed with the Commission and the subsequent investigation thereof, the Commission filed a formal complaint on December 16, 1986, against Robert C. Cooksey, Justice Court Judge, Post 2, Webster County, Mississippi, and that on January 5, 1987, Judge Cooksey answered the complaint; 2. That a formal hearing was held before a committee of the Commission, a full and complete transcript of which is contained in the record before this Court; 3. That, upon formal hearing on May 29, 1987, and consideration of the pleadings and agreement of counsel, the committee entered its proposed findings of fact and recommended sanction, a public reprimand by the Supreme Court of Mississippi; 4. That on August 14, 1987, the full Commission adopted the Committee's proposed findings and recommendation; 5. That, pursuant to Section 177A of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 and Rule 10 A of the Rules of the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance, this matter was placed before this Court for its consideration of the decision of the Commission; 6. That Judge Cooksey has stated in writing personally and through counsel that he has no objection or exception to the motion filed by the Commission and that he agrees that it may be accepted by the Supreme Court and that an order may be entered thereon directing the aforesaid public reprimand. 7. That the Commission and Judge Cooksey have filed with the Court an Agreed Statement of Facts and Grounds for Reprimand, to-wit: 8. That the aforesaid Agreed Statement of Facts and Grounds for Reprimand are accepted and approved by the Court. It is, therefore, ORDERED: (a) That Justice Court Judge Robert C. Cooksey, Post 2, Webster County, Mississippi, shall be, and he hereby stands, publicly reprimanded in the form and manner provided by law; (b) That this Order, together with the findings of fact and recommendations recited herein, shall be published in the Southern Reporter, Mississippi Cases, as an official and permanent reprimand. ORDER FOR PUBLIC REPRIMAND ENTERED. ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., HAWKINS and DAN M. LEE, P.JJ., and PRATHER, SULLIVAN, ANDERSON, GRIFFIN and ZUCCARO, JJ., concur.