Moreland v. State

Adams, Judge.

A jury convicted Young E Moreland of four counts of selling cocaine and acquitted him on one count of possession of cocaine. Moreland appeals following the denial of his motion for new trial. As his sole argument on appeal, Moreland asserts that his conviction was illegal because the State violated Georgia’s bribery statute, OCGA § 16-10-2 (a) (1), when it promised two informants that they would not be prosecuted on unrelated charges in exchange for their participation in controlled buys of cocaine from Moreland and compensated one of those informants for his participation in the…