PEOPLE v. HOOKER

Docket No. 12710.

254 Cal.App.2d 878 (1967)

62 Cal. Rptr. 675

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WAYNE EDWARD HOOKER, Defendant and Appellant.

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

October 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Gately for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and David Gould, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FLEMING, J.

Battery on a peace officer.

About 9 p.m. on September 20, 1965, William Perkins, a police officer of the City of Los Angeles, who worked as a part-time employee for Thrifty Drug Store in detecting and apprehending shoplifters, observed Hooker engaged over a period of 30 minutes in removing various items of merchandise from counters in the drugstore and secreting them on his person. When Hooker left the store without having paid for the merchandise...

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