Leonard v. State

1 Citing case

  1. Hope for Families Community Service v. Warren

    721 F. Supp. 2d 1079 (M.D. Ala. 2010)   Cited 34 times
    Explaining that tortious interference with a business relationship is a separate tort from tortious interference with a contractual relationship because the latter "presupposes the existence of an enforceable contract but that otherwise, the elements of both torts overlap"

    Additionally, the following cases demonstrate the type of conduct found prohibitive under former versions of Alabama's bribery statutes. See United States v. Chatham, 677 F.2d 800, 801-04 (5th Cir. 1982) (affirming RICO judgment of conviction predicated upon a violation of a former version of Alabama's bribery statute, where the president of a building testing and inspection company offered cash payments to a mayor in hopes of securing a testing contract on a contemplated new public hospital and fictional new city hall); Leonard v. State, 484 So. 2d 1185, 1186 (Ala. Crim. App. 1985) (on appeal from a judgment of conviction under ยง 13A-10-61, for offering police officers $1,000 in cash, a Lincoln Continental, and future monthly payments, in exchange for the police officers' ignoring the defendant's drug operation and "bust[ing]" those who interfered with it); Pope v. State, 365 So. 2d 369, 370 (Ala. Crim. App. 1978) (holding that the evidence was sufficient to support a bail bondsman's conviction for bribery for offering a police officer $1,000 to supply him and others with "inside information" to protect a contemplated prostitution business to be disguised as an "escort service," as well as a percentage of the business's expected profits); Fuller v. State, 115 So. 2d 110, 111 (Ala. Ct. App. 1958) (affirming chief deputy sheriff's judgment of conviction for bribery for accepting periodic monetary payments to permit the operation of a bordello); Jordan v. State, 156 So. 642 (Ala. Ct. App. 1934) (affirming a state senator's judgment of conviction for demanding mone