PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. 6595.

175 Cal.App.2d 774 (1959)

1 Cal. Rptr. 44

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MARY ELLEN WILLIAMS, Appellant.

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

December 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Minsky, Garber & Rudof and Albert C. Garber for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack K. Weber, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


BISHOP, J. pro tem.*

We have concluded that the failure of the prosecution to reveal the name of an informer may not be taken advantage of by the defendant to escape the judgment that followed her conviction on a charge of illegal possession of heroin. Upon her appeal from the judgment, it is to be affirmed, therefore.

The defendant put on no defense, so our facts come from the unchallenged testimony of the People's witnesses....

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