People v. Johnson

Defendant was prosecuted for the offense defined in section 182 of the Penal Code. The indictment contained two counts, in the first of which it was charged that defendant with two other persons conspired to falsely accuse one A. C. Loveland before the recorder of the city of Imperial with having issued a check on the First National Bank of Holt-ville without having sufficient funds or credit at that bank to meet the check on presentation. The second count set forth in the preliminary portion thereof that as a part of the same act and transaction alleged in the first count, defendants«conspired to pervert and obstruct justice and the due administration of the laws by falsely charging said Loveland with the crime of drawing and uttering a check knowing that he had not sufficient funds in or credit at the bank upon which the check was drawn, and to procure a warrant of arrest and have said Loveland arrested while he was engaged in hearing the criminal cause in which appellant and others were defendants, thereby discrediting said Loveland as recorder and prejudicing the prosecution in the criminal cause then being tried. It was further charged in the second count that pursuant to…