Fanelli v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

R. J. Fanelli appeals from an order of the Jefferson Circuit Court overruling his CR 60.02 motion to vacate a judgment or judgments sentencing him to one year in prison on each of ten counts for violating KRS 61.190 (receiving profit on public funds) and fining him $900 on each of ten counts for violating KRS 432.350(2) [taking bribe]. See Fanelli et al. v. Commonwealth, Ky., 418 S.W.2d 740 (1967).

The convictions of Fanelli and two co-defendants were based on evidence that E. A. Sanson, a contractor, had paid them various sums of money as bribes in return for their having…