Jones

Defendant Eddy Jones’ appeal is from a superior court misdemeanor judgment of conviction, based upon his plea of guilty to violating Penal Code section 12020, subdivision (a), in that he carried upon his person a concealed “dirk or dagger.” The only proper issue concerns the superior court’s denial of his Penal Code section 1538.5 motion to suppress evidence of the subject weapon.

Evidence at the hearing on Jones’ motion to suppress disclosed these facts.

The juvenile court had before it a Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, subdivision (d), proceeding, in the course of which the juvenile probation department was investigating the origin of scars and marks of beatings on the body of Jones’ young son, Brian. A juvenile probation officer, Ms. Bent, who was assigned to the case had visited Jones at his home. On the day that the case was set for hearing, Ms. Bent observed Jones in a waiting room of the court. She then imparted to the superior court’s bailiff who had expressly been charged with the court’s security, the following information.

Ms. Bent told him of her visit to Jones at his home a couple of weeks before, and of the nature of the proceedings before the…