IN RE JOHNSON

Docket No. Crim. 10193.

65 Cal.2d 393 (1966)

420 P.2d 393

54 Cal. Rptr. 873

In re JOHN WELLINGTON JOHNSON on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wellington Johnson, in pro. per., and Robert C. Anderson, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, and Harold F. Bradford, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, C.J.

In 1963 a jury found petitioner guilty of two counts of unlawfully selling heroin (Health & Saf. Code, § 11501) and the trial court imposed consecutive sentences. In this habeas corpus proceeding petitioner contends that the prosecution's evidence at the trial established that the acts charged and adjudged as two separate sales were in fact and law parts of a single transaction constituting only one...

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