People v. Reeves

I dissent.

Defendants were convicted after trial by jury of violating section 11530 of the Health and Safety Code (possession of marijuana).

*276Facts: About 9 a. m. on September 13, 1961, Inspector Bobert Martin received an anonymous telephone call at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. A female voice, which was unknown to him, said that two “narcotic losers” were in possession of marijuana and named them as Donald Beeves, who lived at the King George Hotel, and Ken McDonald, who operated an automobile agency on Van Ness Avenue. Inspector Martin understood the term “narcotic loser” to mean one…