Connors

The defendant was convicted of the crime of corruptly attempting to influence a juror in respect to his verdict in a criminal case pending in the superior court. This appeal is from the judgment and the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The indictment charges that on the - day of March, 1923, there was pending and set for trial and undecided “an action entitled the People of the State of California vs. Barney Brooks et al.”; that the defendants therein were charged with the crime of criminal syndicalism; that the trial of said action had been set for March 26, 1923; that a regular panel of jurors had been “duly summoned and drawn,” and that one of such jurors was H. D. Arnold; that defendant knew that Arnold had been so drawn and summoned and that he “would continue as said summoned and drawn juror during the trial of” said criminal action; and that defendant corruptly attempted to influence said juror “in respect to his verdict to be thereafter rendered in said action of the People of the State of California vs. Barney Brooks et al., ... by means of a written communication then and there had by said” defendant “with said juror H. D. Arnold.” The indictment then…