PEOPLE v. JACKSON

Docket No. Crim. 5542.

42 Cal.2d 540 (1954)

268 P.2d 6

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. CHESTER JACKSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 19, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Weber, Hy Ginsberg, Theodore Flier and Jess Whitehill for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, S. Ernest Roll, District Attorney (Los Angeles), and Robert Wheeler, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.


SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of offering to bribe two police officers contrary to the provisions of section 67 of the Penal Code, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. The bases for the appeal are alleged errors in giving two instructions offered by the prosecution and in refusing an instruction tendered by the defendant.

The defendant had been a member of the...

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