Anderson

Appallent was indicted, together with one Lips, for the crimes of bribery and extortion. The count charging extortion was dismissed and after trial the defendant was found guilty by a jury of the crime of bribery. From the judgment pronounced upon this conviction and a denial of the defendant’s motion for a new trial this appeal was taken. Anderson and Lips were detectives in the employ of the county of Los Angeles. The indictment charged that one L. M. Furay had been indicted for grand larceny in the state of Texas; that Lips and Anderson arrested him in Los Angeles county and then allowed him to escape in consideration of a pAyment of ten thousand dollars made to the officers by Mrs. Furay. The testimony admitted was amply sufficient to sustain these allegations. Upon similar evidence introduced in the case of People v. Lips it was held in the decision upon appeal ( 59 Cal. App. 381 [ 211 Pac. 22 ]) that the record established a case of bribery under the provisions of section 68 of the Penal Code, which denounces agreements by an officer to receive a bribe “upon any agreement that his vote, opinion or action upon any matter then pending” before him shall be influenced…