Meyers

By information appellant, Nancy Joyce Meyers, was charged with a violation of section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code (possession of heroin). A motion under Penal Code section 995 to set aside the information was denied. Appellant entered a plea of not guilty and thereafter made a motion to suppress evidence pursuant to Penal Code section 1538.5. In support of the motion it was stipulated that the court could read and consider the transcript of the preliminary hearing subject to the right of both sides to offer additional evidence. At the conclusion of the hearing (at which additional testimony was presented), the motion was denied.

When the matter came on for trial, appellant withdrew her plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to the offense as charged. Proceedings were adjourned and the trial court ordered a petition filed in department 95 of the superior court pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 3051 to determine whether appellant was addicted to the use of narcotics or by reason of repeated use of the same was in imminent danger of becoming addicted. Appellant was committed to the California Rehabilitation Center pursuant to section 3051 of the…