PEOPLE v. COPELAND

Docket No. 3494.

169 Cal.App.2d 713 (1959)

338 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. VERNON ROBERT COPELAND, Appellant.

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

April 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Callahan, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Peter T. Kennedy, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


KAUFMAN, P.J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty on seven counts of forging a prescription for a narcotic (Health & Saf. Code, § 11715), as charged in two informations consolidated for trial. On appeal it is argued that the prosecution introduced irrelevant evidence of a highly prejudicial nature, and that the defendant's rights under section 1025 of the Penal Code had also been violated.

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