PEOPLE v. BURNETT

Docket No. 7971.

204 Cal.App.2d 453 (1962)

22 Cal. Rptr. 320

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES BURNETT, Defendant and Appellant.

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

June 7, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Vinje, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and George J. Roth, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


LILLIE, J.

Burnett and one Gallegos were charged in an indictment with the sale of heroin in violation of section 11501, Health and Safety Code. Following conviction by a jury, each defendant unsuccessfully moved for a new trial. Burnett alone appeals from the judgment and the order (denying a new trial). He claims entrapment as a matter of law; his other assignment of error relates to the failure of the court to send the jury back for further deliberations after...

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