Flores

People v. Flores

Good Law
1967 Cal. App. LEXIS 2430·253 Cal. App. 2d 976·61 Cal. Rptr. 230
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 29, 1967Crim. No. 12780California1,287 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Fourt, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of selling heroin.

In an information filed in Los Angeles on November 26, 1965, defendant was charged in count I with selling heroin on *977 August 5, 1965, and in count II with a similar offense on August 24, 1965. It was further charged that defendant had been convicted three times of felonies; once in February 1957, for the crime of burglary; once in October 1960, for a violation of section 487, subdivision 3, Penal Code, (burglary) and once for violation of section 11501, Health and Safety Code, in September 1960. Defendant pleaded not guilty and admitted the prior convictions. In a jury trial defendant was found guilty as charged. Defendant was sentenced to the state prison, the terms to run concurrently. A timely notice of appeal was filed.

A résumé of some of the facts is as follows: On Thursday, August 5, 1965, at about 1:55 p.m., Officer Limas, an undercover narcotics police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, unshaven and with long hair, and wearing old clothes, made his way to the area of a large market in the 300 block on South Broadway, Los Angeles. Officer Limas was accompanied by two men, one a person named…

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