Jones

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of two counts of selling a dangerous drug (amphetamine sulphate) and of violating the Dangerous Weapons’ Control Law (possession of metal knuckles) and with possession of amphetamine sulphate for sale.

In an information (No. 315,775) filed in Los Angeles on January 4, 1966, defendant and James Rollins were charged in count I with selling amphetamine sulphate on September 21, 1965, in violation of section 11912, Health and Safety Code. It was further charged that defendant on three previous occasions had been convicted of a felony and had served time in a state prison in each instance therefor, namely, for robbery in Massachusetts in 1938, for attempted assault in New York in 1944, and for a violation of section 11500, Health and Safety Code in California in 1957. Defendant pleaded not guilty and denied the charged prior convictions.

In a subsequent information (No. 316,766) defendant was charged with possessing metal knuckles in violation of the Dangerous Weapons’ Control Law and in a second count with possessing amphetamine sulphate for sale. The three prior felonies were also alleged. Defendant pleaded not guilty and denied the…