Senegram

Defendant was convicted of the crime of perjury, and appeals from the judgment and an order denying his motion for a new trial.

It appears that one S. Bauman was an employee of the Senegram Company, a corporation, of which defendant was president. Some one telephoned the company, expressing a desire to sell a lot of copper wire and designated a certain saloon in Los Angeles as the place where negotiations could be conducted for its purchase. Bauman met the party and purchased the wire, which as a matter of fact had been stolen from some point in Arizona. Thereafter a complaint was filed charging Bauman with receiving stolen goods. At the preliminary hearing had thereon before a magistrate, defendant was called as a witness and, as alleged in the indictment, gave certain false and material testimony the tendency of which was to fix the crime upon Bauman and show that defendant had no part in making the purchase of the wire, whereas Bauman claimed that the telephone communication was had with Senegram, who directed the former, as such employee, to go to the place designated and make an offer of thirteen cents per pound for the wire. This testimony, covering some five or six pages…