People v. Powell

This is an appeal from a judgment of imprisonment upon a conviction of the crime of bribery, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The information charged defendant with being, at all times therein mentioned, a duly appointed, commissioned and acting police officer of the city of Long Beach, i. e., an “executive officer,” and was in two counts, the first count, by proper and apt allegation, charging the crime of extortion, while the second count charged the crime of bribery— opening with the following statement: “And for a further and separate cause of action, being a…