| − | Three months after he left office, Mitchell was [[Indictment|indicted]] and convicted of four counts of theft of Shreveport city property. His appeal in 1971 [was rejected in state court despite representation by high-profile Shreveport attorneys George Whitfield Jack, Jr. (1906-1989), and James Edwin Bolin, Jr.. State Attorney General Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr. (1914-2001), who subsequently had his own legal problems with the U.S. government, represented the state in Mitchell's appeal.<ref name=leagle/> | + | Three months after he left office, Mitchell was [[Indictment|indicted]] and convicted of four counts of theft of Shreveport city property. His appeal in 1971 [was rejected in state court despite representation by high-profile Shreveport attorneys [[Whitfield Jack|George Whitfield Jack, Jr.]], and James Edwin Bolin, Jr. (1914-2002). State Attorney General Jack Paul Faustin Gremillion, Sr. (1914-2001), who subsequently had his own legal problems with the U.S. government, represented the state in Mitchell's appeal.<ref name=leagle/> |
| | The theft convictions, all with the complicity of municipal garage superintentendent Anthony J. Lucero, Jr.,<ref name=leagle/> included: | | The theft convictions, all with the complicity of municipal garage superintentendent Anthony J. Lucero, Jr.,<ref name=leagle/> included: |