People v. Jackson

*542SHENK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of offering to bribe two police officers contrary to the provisions of section 67 of the Penal Code, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. The bases for the appeal are alleged errors in giving two instructions offered by the prosecution and in refusing an instruction tendered by the defendant.

The defendant had been a member of the Pasadena Police Department for seven years when he resigned in September, 1951, to become a liquor salesman. During the four years prior to his resignation he had been in the Detective…