Floyd v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Floyd appeals his conviction of 24 counts of theft by taking (OCGA § 16-8-2) and five counts of forgery (OCGA § 16-9-1), crimes committed while he was Clerk of the State Court of Glynn County.

1. The first question on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment. Appellant seeks not a new trial but rather an exoneration of the twenty-nine charges of which he was found guilty. In this connection, the sole ground urged below, and here, is that the district attorney’s office engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by forcing…