People v. Burgess

Appellant was charged in five counts with accepting bribes (Pen. Code, § 68) and in a jury trial was found not guilty on count I and guilty on counts II through V. He appeals from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial. Since the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not questioned, we may condense our summary of the voluminous record except as it relates to appellant’s specific assignments of error.

Appellant was employed as a Driver’s License Examiner for the Department of Motor Vehicles at the Hope Street office in downtown Los Angeles. He…