McEwen

This is an appeal hy the People from an order granting a motion made pursuant to Penal Code section 995 and setting aside an information which charged defendants with possession of marijuana in violation of section 11530 of the Health and Safety Code.

On March 30, 1965, there was filed in the Municipal Court of the Los Angeles Judicial District a lengthy, and unquestionably sufficient, affidavit in support of an application for the issuance of several search warrants. These warrants were sought during the culminating stage of a thorough investigation by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department into the allegedly extensive activities in this community of prostitutes, pimps and panderers—a complex of professions euphemistically referred to in modern terminology as ‘ ‘ call girl operations.” This investigation focused considerable attention upon the cooperative assistance being given to these operations by certain telephone answering services.

The warrant here involved was issued authorizing the search of an apartment located at 1837 North Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, California. The following quotation from the warrant indicates the items of personal property which it…