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PEOPLE v. BRANCH

Docket No. 3095.

134 Cal.App.2d 572 (1955)

286 P.2d 39

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HERSCHEL L. BRANCH, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

July 26, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilfred J. Harpham, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, and Harpham & Holt, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Victor Griffith, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

DOOLING, J.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of violating section 11500, Health and Safety Code (possession of a narcotic). On the night of July 1, 1954, four federal narcotics agents approached appellant and his wife in the vicinity of Grove and Fillmore Streets in San Francisco. One of the agents testified that as they approached him appellant started to run and tossed something into the street. The agents searched the street and found a bindle of narcotics. The...

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