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PEOPLE v. KITCHENS

Docket No. Crim. 5774.

46 Cal.2d 260 (1956)

294 P.2d 17

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. BILLY KITCHENS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 24, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wainwright & Bacanelli and Harry S. Wainwright for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Raymond M. Momboisse, Deputy Attorney General, Thomas C. Lynch, District Attorney (San Francisco), and Philip Hanley, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of one count of possessing marijuana in violation of Health and Safety Code, section 11500. His motion for a new trial was denied, and he was sentenced to one year in the county jail. He appeals from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

At about 3:40 p.m. on March 9, 1954, Officer Getchell and Officer McKinley of the San Francisco Police Department and Agent Casey, a federal narcotics...

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