Sternberg

This casé, while possessing many features in common with the case of People v. Sternberg, Crim. No. 65, ante, p. 3, differs from it in certain essentials which demand consideration. Sternberg is here prosecuted for procuring the false registration of David Newman. Newman testified to the circumstances of his false registration at the solicitation of defendant. Lust bore like testimony, he having been present at the time *13 Sternberg induced. Newman to commit the crime. Stern-berg, when the three were together, asked them both to register from the Baldwin Hotel. They went to the registrar's office for that purpose, Sternberg accompanying them, and there did his bidding.

They recounted the later occurrences and conversation at the saloon, when twenty dollars was given them by defendant with which to get out of town, and in this they are corroborated by Gutman.

The court instructed the jury that Newman and Lust were accomplices with Sternberg. This declaration was asked by defendant in an instruction proposed by him, and was a more favorable instruction than he was entitled to. For the reasons given in People v. Sternberg, Crim. 65, ante, p. 3, the defendant cannot complain of…