Danford

Defendant was convicted upon an information charging him with willfully delivering to another a message falsely purporting to have been received by telegraph, knowing the same to be false, and with the intent to injure and deceive the one to whom it was delivered. The information was as follows:

A number of alleged errors are assigned as grounds for reversal, among which it is urged that the verdict is not justified by the evidence.

1. The evidence tended to show that the defendant, who was at the time engaged in the practice of law in the city of Los Angeles, had in his possession a $5,000 bond, which purported to have been issued by the San Miguel Gas, Light and Power Corporation of Telluride, Colorado; that defendant desired to negotiate a loan of $1,000 upon this bond as security, and to that end called upon C. J. O’Keefe, the complaining witness, in said city of Los Angeles. In the course of the conversation, defendant gave to 0 ’Keefe the names of certain alleged bond brokers in Denver, and suggested that he (O’Keefe) wire them as to the value of the bond. On the day following O’Keefe called at defendant’s office, where, at O’Keefe’s suggestion, it was arranged that a…