Monday, December 6, 2010
Former county judge gets jail time
Posted By Max Brantley on Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Former Newton County Judge Clarence Harold Smith, 58, has been sentenced in federal court to a year and a day in prison and ordered to pay $69,140 in restitution for scheming to profit from county purchase of heavy equipment.
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