Reid

On May 11, 1918, the grand jury of Trinity County presented to the clerk of the superior court of said county an accusation against John S. Reid, district attorney of said county, under section 758 of the Penal Code. Said accusation contained six specifications of willful misconduct on" the part of said district attorney, but of these all were eliminated from consideration by order of the trial court except one. As finally submitted to the jury the said accusation was in the following form:

Within the time required by law the said John S. Reid filed in said court written objections or a demurrer to the legal sufficiency of the accusation and the specifications thereof. His objection to the last three charges was sustained, but was overruled as to the first three. Charge No. 2 and charge No. 3 were afterward, however, dismissed on motion. A jury was regularly impaneled to try the defendant on the third day of August, 1918, and found him guilty as charged in said first count. The defendant, thereupon, in open court waived time for pronouncing judgment and the court, after reciting the various steps taken in the proceedings, concluded its judgment as follows: “It is ordered,…