Lawton

In a nonjury trial defendant was convicted of unlawfully possessing heroin on November 30, 1959. His motion for a new trial was denied. He appeals from the judgment sentencing him to state prison.

On September 22, 1959, Spot Johnson, an informer, told Officers Leeds, Beckmann, and Drees of the Los Angeles Police Department that a person known to him as Cadillac Willie or Black Willie was selling heroin in large amounts on Central Avenue between 5th Street and 68th Street in Los Angeles. Johnson told the officers this person lived somewhere in the 1000 block on East 24th Street. At the same time, the officers talked to Ricky Pender graft, another informer, who told them substantially the same thing.

The officers checked the 1000 block on East 24th Street and saw a two-tone blue Cadillac bearing license number KPE-747 parked in front of 1006 East 24th Street. They cheeked with other police officers and were told Cadillac Willie or Black Willie was defendant Lawton. They checked their monitor file and found under “Cadillac Willie” the name of defendant—William Lawton, his Los Angeles number, and a prior booking number. They checked to see if defendant had a prior police record and…