People v. Hernandez

The disclosure that the “Peerless” car was a stolen automobile was made by defendant. It was a part of the bribe offered to the police officer. When one charged with crime offers a bribe to the arresting officer to permit him to escape or to cloak his guilty act with the guise of innocence, it is proper for a jury to consider such fact in passing upon the question of the guilt or innocence of the defendant. (Commonwealth v. Wyoda, 44 Penn. Super. Ct. 552, 559; 8 R. C. L. 193; Underhill Crim. Ev. § 121.) “ That such efforts may have some tendency to prove a consciousness of guilt seems to be a…