People v. Thomas

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Shasta County, and from an order denying a motion in arrest of judgment.

The information is as follows:—Ezra Thomas is accused by the district attorney for the county of Shasta, State of California, by this information, of the crime of attempting to suborn perjury committed as follows: The said Ezra Thomas, on or about the 21st day of October, 1882, at and in the county of Shasta, and State of California, and prior to the filing of this information, then and there being, then and there did wilfully, deliberately, and feloniously attempt and endeavor to procure another person, to wit, one Lee Thomas, to swear and testify falsely, and commit the crime of perjury in a certain law suit then and there pending in a Justices’ Court of township Ho. 5, in and for said county of Shasta, and before one James P. Smith, a justice of the peace, wherein said Ezra Thomas was plaintiff, and John J. Kern et al. were defendants, all of which is contrary, etc.