Washburn

The defendant was indicted for bribery, tried and convicted of the offense, and appeals from the judgment pronounced upon the verdict and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The first reason assigned by the appellant for a reversal of the judgment is that the court erred in permitting certain cross-examination of a police officer. The defense endeavored to establish an alibi and evidence was introduced to show that appellant had been working* in another part of the city of Los Angeles on the evening in question; that about 11 o’clock in the evening, according to his own testimony, he made an arrest; returned to the station and dictated a report. The bribery is supposed to have occurred before midnight. When the officer was called by defense counsel he was asked to identify the report, which he did, testifying that he remembered its being dictated by the appellant. On cross-examination the witness was asked how long he had known McDonald, the person alleged to have bribed the appellant by giving him between $600 and $700. An objection to this question was properly overruled for the reason that it was preliminary to a showing of the interest and relation of the…