PEOPLE v. PREWITT

Docket No. Crim. 6444.

52 Cal.2d 330 (1959)

341 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Appellant, v. HENRY VICTOR PREWITT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 19, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown and Stanley Mosk, Attorneys General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, William B. McKesson, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Jere J. Sullivan, Lewis Watnick and Robert Lederman, Deputy District Attorneys, for Appellant.

Albert Jack Chotiner and Russell E. Parsons for Respondent.

A.L. Wirin and Paul P. Selvin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

The People appeal from an order granting defendant's motion to set aside an indictment charging defendant with bookmaking and with occupying an apartment for the purpose of recording bets. (Pen. Code, § 337a.) Defendant has moved to augment the record to present additional grounds for affirming the order.

The grand jury returned the indictment after hearing the following evidence: Officer Joseph Deiro testified that for the past three years...

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