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PEOPLE v. COWGILL

Docket No. 8379.

274 Cal.App.2d 923 (1969)

78 Cal. Rptr. 853

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ALFRED TENNYSON COWGILL, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles.

May 27, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melville B. Nimmer for Defendant and Appellant.

Mark Wood, City Prosecutor, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, District Attorney, Harry Wood, Robert Lederman and Nathan J. Roberts, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae.

WHYTE, P.J.

Defendant was convicted of violating subdivision (d) of section 614 of the Military and Veterans Code which makes it a misdemeanor to publicly mutilate, deface, defile or trample upon a flag of the United States. Defendant admitted that he caused a flag of the United States to be cut and sewn into a vest and wore that vest on the public streets. It is not necessary to determine whether the mutilation stopped with the cutting and sewing in private or whether...

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