State v. Neary

MILLER, Justice:

Frank Neary, a member of the Putnam County Commission, was convicted of being or becoming pecuniarily interested in a contract over which he may have had some voice or influence, and of accepting a pecuniary benefit, a telephone access code card, for having voted on a county telephone contract. He was ordered to pay fines totaling $5,500 for the two misdemeanor convictions and was removed from office as required by statute. His motion for a judgment of acquittal or, in the alternative, for a new trial was denied, and upon appeal he assigns as error the sufficiency of the…