People v. Price

By an indictment defendant was charged with violation of Health and Safety Code, section 11500, in that he did sell and furnish a narcotic, to wit, heroin. He was tried without a jury and found guilty as charged. The trial court denied defendant’s motion for a new trial and application for probation, and sentenced him to state prison. Prom the judgment he appeals, the principal contention being that the evidence—the heroin—was illegally obtained, based upon the defense of entrapment.

The People’s witness was William Hollingsworth, a plainclothes police investigator, who testified that on the…