People v. Wren

The defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of having in his possession a quantity of morphine in violation of the State Poison Act (Stats. 1907, p. 124). Though the offense is a misdemeanor in the first instance, the defendant was informed against and convicted in this case of a felony because of a prior conviction of the same offense. In his application on appeal numerous assignments of error are made, but all of these have been abandoned except the point that the court erred in denying his motion for a return of property which had been taken from his possession and…