PEOPLE v. SPRIGGS

Docket No. Crim. 7601.

60 Cal.2d 868 (1964)

389 P.2d 377

36 Cal. Rptr. 841

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CLARENCE SPRIGGS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 25, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert E. Selwyn, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and C.A. Collins, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

The trial court sitting without a jury convicted defendant of possessing heroin in violation of Health and Safety Code, section 11500. He appeals from the judgment of conviction, contending that the trial court erred in refusing to admit certain evidence.

The evidence is conflicting. Officer Cochran testified that from a darkened doorway he and two other police officers observed defendant and Mrs. Albertina Roland together on the street on the...

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