PEOPLE v. BECHTEL

Docket No. Crim. 5447.

41 Cal.2d 441 (1953)

260 P.2d 31

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. DAN MYERS BECHTEL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

August 21, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic H. Vercoe for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Frank Richards, Assistant Attorney General, William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, S. Ernest Roll, District Attorney (Los Angeles), J. Miller Leavy and Ralph F. Bagley, Deputy District Attorneys, for Respondent.


SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction on four counts of grand theft and from orders denying the defendant's motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment.

On November 30, 1950, the defendant was tried on an indictment charging the following offenses: Count I: violation of section 67 1/2 of the Penal Code (offering bribe to public official); Count II: grand theft against Dr. Theodore J. Bluechel, committed on or about July 11, 1950;...

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