Colton v. Leypoldt

OPINION

By the Court, Merrill, C. J.:

This is an appeal from order of the trial court denying petitioner a discharge under writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner, a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County, was indicted by the grand jury of that county under sec. 9996, N.C.L.1929. Specifically the charge was that petitioner as county commissioner had agreed to accept $10,000 from one Louis Tabet to exert his influence with the proper officials to the end that Tabet receive gaming and liquor licenses; that a scintillator or Geiger counter was accepted by petitioner as applying upon…