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PEOPLE v. DIXON

Docket No. Crim. 5816.

46 Cal.2d 456 (1956)

296 P.2d 557

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. DOROTHY DIXON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 4, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Dixon, in pro. per., John H. Marshall and Henry S. Rupp for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction entered after the court sitting without a jury found her guilty of one count of possessing heroin. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11500.) She also appeals from an order denying her motion for a new trial.

Defendant resided in a court apartment rented from Ramona Lopez, who occupied another apartment of the same court. Sometime during the evening of November 29, 1954, Officer O'Grady of the Narcotic...

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