Squires

The defendant was convicted of a felony in asking for and agreeing to receive a bribe as a juror. He appeals from the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial. The indictment upon which he was tried was found, presented, and tiled June 7, 1892, and charges that on the seventh day of June, 1892, while defendant was a juror in a case on trial in the superior court of San Francisco, the pend-ency of which is particularly set out and described in the indictment, “said Squires did wilfully, unlawfully, corruptly, and feloneously ask and agree to receive of and from one James F. Smith, one of the attorneys for defendants in said civil action, the sum of five hundred dollars, in lawful money of the United States, upon an agreement which he, the said J. H. Squires, then and there offered to make and enter into with said James F. Smith, that in consideration of the payment to the said J. H. Squires of the sum of five hundred dollars, in lawful money of the United States, he, the said J. H. Squires, would cast his vote and render his decision as juror in said civil action in favor of the defendants in said civil action,” etc.

Defendant was prosecuted under section 93 of the Penal…