7-5-37 - To prosecute suits. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 7-5-37. To prosecute suits.
 

The attorney general shall, at the request of the governor or other state officer, in person or by his assistant, prosecute suit on any official bond, or any contract in which the state is interested, upon a breach thereof, and prosecute or defend for the state all actions, civil or criminal, relating to any matter connected with either of the state offices. He may require the service or assistance of any district attorney in and about such matters or suits. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1892, § 185; 1906, § 191; Hemingway's 1917, § 3479; 1930, § 3669; 1942, § 3840.