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PEOPLE v. LAWTON

Docket No. 7235.

186 Cal.App.2d 834 (1960)

9 Cal. Rptr. 122

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIE LAWTON, Appellant.

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

November 28, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Clay Jacke for Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and A. Douglas MacRae, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

VALLÉE, J.

In a nonjury trial defendant was convicted of unlawfully possessing heroin on November 30, 1959. His motion for a new trial was denied. He appeals from the judgment sentencing him to state prison.

On September 22, 1959, Spot Johnson, an informer, told Officers Leeds, Beckmann, and Drees of the Los Angeles Police Department that a person known to him as Cadillac Willie or Black Willie was selling...

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