Commonwealth v. Yancey

JONES, Justice.

Clarence A. Yancey, Chief of Sanitation, City of Louisville, was indicted by the February 1975 term of the Jefferson County Grand Jury. He was charged with four counts of accepting bribes in 1973, and with one charge of accepting a bribe in 1974. The statute under which Mr. Yancey was indicted provides:

“Any member of the General Assembly or any other executive, judicial, ministerial or legislative officer of this state or of any county or city, including members of boards of education and subdistrict trustees, who takes or agrees to take any bribe to do or omit to do any act in…