State v. Lombardi

Appellant submits that the informations do not charge him with any crime or misdemeanor, nor do the verdicts find him guilty of any because they do not charge or find that he acted from corrupt motives and therefore are defective.

Corruption, that is, action or nonaction motivated by personal gain or advantage to the sheriff, is not an essential element of the misdemeanors with which the sheriff is charged. His wilful refusal or nonperformance of duties imposed on him by law by virtue of his office constitute the offenses of which the sheriff is accused regardless of the presence or absence of…