Connors

The defendant was charged by indictment found and returned by the grand jury of Sacramento County with the crime of attempting corruptly to influence one H. D. Arnold, a trial juror, in the determination of his verdict in a specifically named criminal case then pending in the superior court of said county. Upon his trial for said offense he was convicted, and he brings his case to this court by an appeal from the judgment of conviction and the order denying him a new trial.

The present is the second trial of the defendant upon the charge preferred against him in the indictment. He was convicted by the jury of the offense charged by the indictment, but the judgment and the order denying him a new trial were reversed because of the giving of an instruction which this court held involved an erroneous and a prejudicial statement of the rule of law thereby sought to be declared. (People v. Connors, 70 Cal. App. 315 [ 233 Pac. 362 ].) The opinion disposing of said appeal in the case sets forth in substance the following part of the indictment:

The written communication in its entirety follows in said opinion the above excerpt, but, for the purposes of the present opinion, it will be…