PEOPLE v. ROLL

Docket No. 19784.

124 Cal.App.2d 802 (1954)

269 P.2d 244

THE PEOPLE, Appellant, v. S. ERNEST ROLL, as District Attorney, etc., Respondent.

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

April 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Edward Sumner, Deputy Attorney General, for Appellant.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles) and William E. Lamoreaux, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Morris Lavine as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


WOOD (Parker), J.

The People of the State of California, represented by the attorney general, sought a writ of mandate to compel the district attorney of Los Angeles County to deliver to the State of California the sum of $24,990.91 which the district attorney, in his official capacity, had seized as money that had been offered for distribution in violation of provisions of the Penal Code relating to lotteries. The writ was denied, and the People appeal from the judgment...

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