Homan

Defendants appeal from a judgment rendered against each of them pursuant to their conviction on each of four counts in an information wherein they were charged with the crime of bribery. They also appeal from an order denying their motion for a new trial.

Briefly, the facts relating to each of the four counts of bribery appear to be that the two defendants, who were traffic officers of the city of Los Angeles and who operated together at night in a large outlying district, stopped a Japanese (who at that'time was driving an autotruck), for assumed violation of the traffic ordinance. What followed thereafter, as claimed by the prosecution, is illustrated by the testimony given by one of the prosecuting witnesses as follows:

One of the alleged errors which occurred at the trial related to the refusal of the trial court to permit defendant to show the motive which actuated each of the prosecuting witnesses in giving the testimony upon which the prosecution and conviction of defendants depended.

On cross-examination of one of the prosecuting witnesses, counsel for defendants asked certain preliminary questions for the asserted purpose of laying a foundation to show “interest and…