PEOPLE v. TORRES

Docket No. Crim. 7549.

61 Cal.2d 264 (1964)

391 P.2d 161

37 Cal. Rptr. 889

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EDMUNDO PORTILLO TORRES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 21, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles V. Eckert III, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Gilbert F. Nelson, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


PEEK, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment following jury convictions of the sale of heroin in two counts. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11501.) The indictment also charged, and defendant admitted, two prior convictions, one a narcotics violation. The order denying defendant's motion for a new trial being nonappealable his purported appeal therefrom must be dismissed. (Pen. Code, § 1237.)

The prosecution presented substantial evidence that at approximately...

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