People v. Fitzpatrick

Defendants were charged jointly with the crime of bribery, in that defendants Fitzpatrick and Downs received and agreed to receive from one William C. Hodges a bribe for the purpose of influencing their action as members of the city council of the city of Los Angeles in a certain matter pending before that body and in that defendant Murphy aided and abetted his codefendants in the commission of the offense. Murphy was acquitted and Fitzpatrick and Downs were convicted. The two latter defendants appealed from the judgment of conviction and from an order of the trial court denying their motion…