Jones v. State

Defendant prosecutes error from a conviction in the district court for Cass county on an indictment brought under section 9722, Comp. St. 1922, under the terms of which it *711is made a misdemeanor for any of the officers enumerated in the section to “be guilty of any palpable omission of duty or who shall wilfully or corruptly be guilty of malfeasance or partiality in the discharge of his official duties.” Defendant, at the date mentioned in the indictment, was the chief of police of the city of Plattsmouth and fell within the class of officers mentioned in the statute. The indictment contained…