TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:
A federal jury convicted a Georgia county sheriff on twenty counts of mail fraud for floating his personal credit card debts through payments from a county-funded checking account for over four years. The United States appeals the district court's grant of a new trial. We reverse.
I.
Appellee Cary V. Cox served as Sheriff of Mitchell County, Georgia, and Thelma Wingate served as his secretary, during all relevant times. The...
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