People v. Coffey
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and from orders denying a motion in arrest of judgment and denying a motion for a new trial. Frank H. Dunne, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Carroll Cook, Franklin P. Bull, and Robert Ferral, for Appellant. TJ. S. Webb, Attorney-General, W. H. Langdon, District Attorney, Wm.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and from orders denying a motion in arrest of judgment and denying a motion for a new trial. Frank H. Dunne, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Carroll Cook, Franklin P. Bull, and Robert Ferral, for Appellant. TJ. S. Webb, Attorney-General, W. H. Langdon, District Attorney, Wm. Hoff Cook, Assistant District Attorney, and Francis J. Heney, Assistant District Attorney, for Respondent.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Defendant was indicted under section 165 of the Penal Code, and was charged as a supervisor with having “agreed to receive and receiving” a bribe of four thousand dollars from James L. Gallagher, Abraham Ruef, and Tirey L. Ford. It was alleged that the agreement to receive the bribe and the reception of the bribe were “with the willful, felonious, unlawful and corrupt intent” upon the part of Coffey that his official vote, opinion, judgment, and action should be influenced thereby in the matter of granting to the United Railroads of San Francisco a franchise for an overhead trolley system.
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