White

Garvin Dale White was convicted by a jury on nine counts contained in an indictment charging violation of various sections of the Health and Safety Code involving dangerous drugs. (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 11912, 11911, 11530.5, 11500 and 11910, and conspiracy to violate Health & Saf. Code, § 11912 in violation of Pen. Code, § 182.) He seeks reversal of the subsequent judgment entered thereon by reason of claimed undue restriction by the trial court upon his effort to impeach the police informant by cross-examination and the refusal of the trial court to declare a mistrial due to appellant’s voluntary absence during the last three days of the five-day jury trial and his absence at the time of pronouncing judgment.

The purport of appellant’s first complaint is that the court permitted the prosecution to portray the undercover agent, Clinton Beeler, in a false image of uprightness, integrity and truthfulness, by permitting reference to him by the prosecution knd prosecution witnesses as a deputy in the sheriff’s office, and, thereafter, unduly restricting the defense from developing that he was not a person with the character of a regular deputy sheriff, but was in fact a…