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PEOPLE v. CHANDLER

Docket No. 3646.

152 Cal.App.2d Supp. 916 (1957)

313 P.2d 223

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WALTER ROBERT CHANDLER, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles.

June 25, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Betts, Ely & Loomis for Appellant.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Donald M. Redwine, Assistant City Attorney, and Philip E. Grey, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.

BISHOP, P.J.

[1a] The end did not justify the means. A desire to bring about the conviction of the defendant did not excuse the introduction of immaterial and prejudicial evidence concerning previous, disconnected, misdemeanors, and it was error to approve the questions concerning them. The judgment, by which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the city jail for 30 days, must be reversed.

The charge made against the defendant was that...

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