People v. Hickman

The grand jury of the county of Alameda presented an indictment against the defendant, a licensed and practicing attorney and city judge of Albany, charging in three counts: First, a violation of section 653f of the Penal Code of the State of California, alleging that defendant solicited George R. Fauset, Fred D. Hurlbut and C. D. Iloel to offer and join in the offer of a bribe in the amount of fifteen hundred dollars to certain state officers, namely, the members of the board of equalization; the second count charged an attempt to commit grand theft in the same amount on the same date…