Beal v. State

PIERCE, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Dennis Jerome Beal allegedly offered Lieutenant Tommy Jones, a Madison County Sheriffs Department deputy, $10,000 in hopes that Jones could make Beal’s pending drug charge disappear. On April 28, 2010, Beal was indicted by a Madison County grand jury for bribery as a habitual offender. On September 15, 2010, a Madison County jury unanimously found Beal guilty of bribing Jones, and the trial court sentenced Beal to ten years in prison as a nonviolent habitual offender. Beal appeals his conviction, and this Court reverses and remands.

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