PEOPLE v. HEAD

Docket No. 763.

108 Cal.App.2d 734 (1952)

239 P.2d 506

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. EUGENE J. HEAD et al., Defendants; JOHN K. PURVIS et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

January 16, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Riley & Ferguson for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


GRIFFIN, J.

Appellants John N. Purvis, Jerry K. Golightly, and James Russell Grimes were charged jointly with defendants Eugene J. Head and Robert L. McCabe with the crime of feloniously possessing a narcotic, to wit, marijuana. Their ages ranged from 18 to 21 years. A jury trial resulted in a conviction of all five defendants. Appellants appealed.

About 9:30 p.m. on April 9, 1951, three police officers were touring Golden Hill Park in San Diego in their police...

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