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PEOPLE v. HARRINGTON

Docket No. 55136, (Calendar No. 17).

396 Mich. 33 (1976)

238 N.W.2d 20

PEOPLE v. HARRINGTON

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Bruce A. Barton, Prosecuting Attorney, and James M. Justin, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

State Appellate Defender Office (by Roger L. Wotila and Stuart M. Israel), for defendant on appeal.

WILLIAMS, J. (to affirm).

Defendant was prosecuted for possession of a small residue of heroin, visible to the naked eye, in the form of a hard powdery substance on the interior of a bottle cap. Defendant sought to avoid conviction by asking this Court to construe this state's former statute making it a felony for "any person not having a license * * * [to] possess or have under his control any narcotic drug" to require

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