Greatreaks

The appellant was convicted of the crime of offering money to a police officer with intent to influence the latter’s official conduct as a member of the Anchorage Police Department. Alaska Compiled Laws Ann.1949, § 65-7-4. Upon this appeal appellant first argues that the court was in error in rejecting certain evidence offered for the purpose of showing the bias and hostility of the prosecution’s principal witness. He also contends that the court erred in refusing certain instructions on his defense of entrapment.

At the outset we note that appellant has wholly disregarded the requirements of our rules relating to the inclusion of a specification of errors in his brief.

The police officer in question, one Holmwood, was the principal witness against the defendant. He testified that defendant had approached him with an inquiry as to whether arrangements could be made by one Berg to carry on a poker game in the City of Anchorage without interruption by the police, and that in the course of subsequent negotiations the defendant and Berg offered Holmwood and another police officer payments of $500 per month if they would arrange to permit the running of the game. Upon…