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PEOPLE v. CONTRERAS

Docket No. 3459.

167 Cal.App.2d 288 (1959)

334 P.2d 208

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ARMANDO RAUL CONTRERAS, Appellant.

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

January 22, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Haley, under appointment by the District Court of Appeals, and Haley & Rockefeller for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown and Stanley Mosk, Attorneys General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Arlo E. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

KAUFMAN, P.J.

A jury found defendant guilty of selling heroin in violation of Health and Safety Code, section 11500. He appeals from the judgment of conviction, claiming that the trial court erred in failing to give an instruction on circumstantial evidence and an instruction on reasonable doubt.

The facts, which are not in dispute, are as follows: On Sunday, July 21, 1957, Officers Juarez and Lopez of the San...

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