PEOPLE v. ONE 1950 MERCURY SEDAN

Docket No. 19081.

116 Cal.App.2d 746 (1953)

254 P.2d 666

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ONE 1950 MERCURY SEDAN, Engine No. 50LA40896M, etc., Defendant; J.J. TORRES et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

March 18, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Marcus for Appellants.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Donald D. Stoker and Stanley Zipser, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


DRAPEAU, J.

A clothes cleaner telephoned the police department in Los Angeles that he had found two brown paper cigarettes in a coat left with him to be cleaned, and that he thought they were marihuana cigarettes. Police officers went to the cleaner's place of business, and waited for the owner of the coat to appear.

Jimmie Torres, a 16-year-old boy, drove up in a Mercury sedan. He, and several companions riding with him, were taken into custody.

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