PEOPLE v. RICE

Docket No. 5107.

123 Cal.App.2d 124 (1954)

266 P.2d 200

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM ERNEST RICE, Appellant.

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

February 9, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Marshall for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and James D. Loebl, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


SHINN, P.J.

Defendant was informed against and convicted in a nonjury trial of the possession of a preparation of heroin, in violation of section 11500, Health and Safety Code. He appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The ground of the appeal is the claimed insufficiency of the evidence to prove defendant had possession of the narcotic, or that he knew it was a narcotic. We are of the opinion that both the fact of...

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