Morris

In a nonjury trial defendant was convicted of a violation of section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code. On stipulation the cause was submitted on the transcript of the preliminary examination. Defendant appeals from the judgment.

On February 23, 1957, Officer Lowe of the Los Angeles Police Department contacted what he called “a reliable confidential informant. ’ ’ Lowe testified he had used this informer in the past and that the information the informer had given had been reliable. Lowe also testified he had done business with the informer for a year; Officer Olson had been doing business with him (the informer) for three years; the informer had given him (Lowe) information which he found reliable three times; “Q. Any bad information received from him any time where he has been shown to be wrong 1 A. There has been times that we haven’t found narcotics in the last three years; that we have missed.” The informer told Lowe that defendant and a Larry Prentis were in a room on the second floor of a hotel at 333 East Fourth Street in Los Angeles and that they had in their possession a fairly large quantity of narcotics.

About an hour after receiving the information from the…