Barnes v. State

Smith, Judge.

Tammy Telayne Barnes was indicted by a Floyd County grand jury for the offenses of possession of cocaine, OCGA § 16-13-30 (a), and violation of oath of public office, OCGA § 16-10-1. A jury found Barnes guilty of both charges. Barnes’s motion for a new trial was denied, and she appeals, raising two enumerations of error. We affirm.

Barnes was employed as a correctional officer at the Floyd County Correctional Institution. In January 1996, the warden of the institution, J. W. Scott, received the fourth in a series of complaints from an inmate who alleged that Barnes had offered to…