PEOPLE v. HERNANDEZ

Docket No. 933.

115 Cal.App.2d 435 (1953)

252 P.2d 75

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ROBERT RAY HERNANDEZ, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District.

January 20, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Hampton and Carl T. Rimbaugh for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


GRIFFIN, J.

Defendant was charged with the crime of possession of a narcotic (heroin) in violation of section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code. A trial by jury resulted in a conviction as charged, and a three months' jail sentence was imposed. The heroin was found in defendant's car. He now claims that the evidence is insufficient to show that he knowingly had possession of it, and that the court erred in denying him the right to examine the arresting...

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