PEOPLE v. BATWIN

Docket No. 5002.

120 Cal.App.2d 825 (1953)

262 P.2d 88

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LESTER PAUL BATWIN, Appellant.

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

October 26, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Vernon Brumbaugh and Robert P. Dockeray for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Alan R. Woodard, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


VALLEE, J.

Defendant was convicted of unlawfully having marijuana in his possession. He appeals from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial. The marijuana was found in the home of defendant and his wife. Defendant asserts that possession was not established in that there was no evidence he had any knowledge of the presence of the marijuana in the house or that he had any control over it.

On October 8, 1952, several police officers had...

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