PEOPLE v. HANCOCK

Docket Nos. 3399, 3400.

156 Cal.App.2d 305 (1957)

319 P.2d 731

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HAROLD EUGENE HANCOCK, Appellant. THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ANDREW CRAYTON, Appellant.

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

December 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest W. Schmidt, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant Hancock.

John R. Lamoreaux, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant Crayton.

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


BRAY, J.

Consolidated appeals by defendants from jury conviction of consolidated separate charges of violation of section 11500, Health and Safety Code (possession of narcotics) and from the order denying new trial.

QUESTIONS PRESENTED

1. Sufficiency of the evidence (a) as to Hancock; (b) as to Crayton.

2. Admissibility of puncture marks and of prior use of narcotics.

EVIDENCE

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