State v. Hair

GREENE, Judge.

John Stacey Hair (defendant) appeals from judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of offering a bribe to an official in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-218.

At trial, the State presented evidence that on 18 June 1992, while in the office of Michael Tolbert (Tolbert), the chief law enforcement officer for the Cumberland County Alcohol Beverage Control Board (the ABC Board), defendant told Tolbert that he had a friend [Lacy Leroy Cashwell (Cashwell)] who owed him a $140 gambling debt and that if Tolbert “would arrange to arrest this individual and put some…