PEOPLE v. MACKSON

Docket No. 14626.

264 Cal.App.2d 634 (1968)

70 Cal. Rptr. 840

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. FELIX MACKSON, Defendant and Appellant.

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

August 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Amato, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

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


FOURT, J.

This is an appeal from an order of commitment as an alleged narcotics addict.

Defendant came to the Los Angeles Police Department and said, "I want to commit myself to the narcotic hospital. Yesterday I called Deputy D.A. Thale and he suggested that I turn myself in to the LAPD. I've been using heroin since 1944. I had my last fix yesterday. I fixed about a 1/2 a cap. I have been fixing here in my left arm. Those marks on my right arm are old. I...

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