PEOPLE v. GRUBB

Docket No. Crim. 8166.

63 Cal.2d 614 (1965)

408 P.2d 100

47 Cal. Rptr. 772

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN WILSON GRUBB, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Perrett, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Stanley Mosk and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, Woodruff J. Deem, District Attorney, Edwin M. Osborne, Chief Criminal Deputy District Attorney, and Edwin L. Laing, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


TOBRINER, J.

A jury found that defendant, in violation of Penal Code section 12020, possessed a weapon of a kind commonly known as a billy; the court entered a judgment of conviction. Section 12020 provides, in part, as follows: "Any person in this State who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the State, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives, lends, or possesses any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack...

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