The chairman of the state elections board questions the theory of House Speaker Jim Black’s lawyer about campaign contributions from optometrists.

Black’s attorney — John Wallace — says the evidence from optometrists in last month’s elections board hearing shows no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Black campaign.

Specifically, he says there’s no evidence of illegal contributions “in the name of another.”

But elections board chairman Larry Leake interrupted the argument to take exception with Wallace’s reasoning