People v. Melissakis

*55Opinion

GARGANO, J.

On July 5, 1973, appellant, Theodore Adam Melissakis, registered at the Kern Hotel in Bakersfield, California, under the nomenclature “Smith”; he paid for one week’s occupancy and took up residence in room number 12. The hotel was located across an alley way from a building owned by the Pacific Telephone Company, and room number 12 faced two metal doors which were on the second floor of the telephone building.

On July 12, 1973, appellant paid in advance for another week’s occupancy at the hotel, this time using his true name. On the same day appellant went to a gun shop in…