Woodward

By verdict of the jury in the trial of this action the defendant was found guilty of violation of section 653f of the Penal Code, as charged in the indictment. By the indictment the defendant was accused of said crime, described as “soliciting the commission of a crime, to-wit, the offer and acceptance of a bribe”, as follows, to wit: that the defendant did “solicit Bonner Adams, S. M. Haskins and A. B. Miller to offer and join in an offer of a bribe to one J. S. McKnight, and one Roy L. Donley”, then duly elected, etc., couneilmen of the city of Los Angeles, and other then duly elected, etc., members of the city council of said city, “for the purpose and with the intent to corruptly influence each and all of said City Couneilmen, in his and their action in a matter and subject then and there pending before them as such City Couneilmen” and then and there pending before said city council, to vote in favor of the approval of a contract described in the indictment, the nature of which contract may be more briefly indicated by calling it the garbage disposal contract. The appeal is from the judgment of conviction and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

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