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IN RE HARRIS

Docket No. Crim. 6962.

56 Cal.2d 879 (1961)

366 P.2d 305

16 Cal. Rptr. 889

In re ALBERT J. HARRIS on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 22, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh R. Manes, Brock & Fleishman and Stanley Fleishman for Petitioner.

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney (Los Angeles), Philip E. Grey, Assistant City Attorney, and Wm. E. Doran, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.

McCOMB, J.

Petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner's salesman was arrested, without a warrant, for selling obscene books in violation of section 311, subdivision 3, of the Penal Code.

Incident to the arrest, virtually all the "books, magazines, writings, publications and papers" in petitioner's bookstore were seized. Petitioner was thereafter charged in two counts with selling two specific books...

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