People v. Russell

Defendant was found guilty of a violation of section 337a, subdivision 2, Penal Code (occupying a house with books, papers, apparatus and paraphernalia for the purpose of recording and registering horseracing bets). He appeals from the judgment of conviction.

Acting on information from a sergeant in administrative vice that by dialing a certain telephone number bets could be placed on numbers and horses, Officer Hubbard determined from the telephone company that the number was registered to a woman at 11616 South San Pedro. On June 1, 1962, around 1 p.m., while his partner, Officer Nishimura,…