People v. Sperl

Opinion

HASTINGS, J.

In a nonjury trial defendant Sperl, who was the Marshal for Los Angeles County, was convicted in count I of violating Penal Code section 424, subdivision 3, in that he had knowingly kept false accounts relating to the receipt, etc., of public moneys (Legislative Advocates transaction); in count III of violating section 424, subdivision 1, in that he misappropriated public moneys for the use of another (Candidate’s Driver transaction); in count V of violating section 424, subdivision 3, in that he knowingly kept false accounts or made false entries or erasures in accounts…