Phillips v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Defendant county commissioner appeals from his conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial on two counts of malpractice in office. Code § 89-9907.

Defendant was originally indicted on many counts. A new trial was granted on most of these following a decision of the Supreme Court that identical indictments against other commissioners failed to allege offenses against the State law. See Steele v. State, 227 Ga. 653 (182 SE2d *500475). The two counts on which he was convicted and a new trial denied alleged: (1) that he had sent a county employee to take an…