Coy v. Superior Court

TRAYNOR J.

An information filed by the District Attorney of Los Angeles County charged defendant with possessing narcotics in violation of Health and Safety Code, section 11500. His motion to set aside the information under Penal Code, section 995, was denied, and he now seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent his trial.

On June 11, 1958, Officer Hill of the Los Angeles Police Department Narcotics Division received information from a confidential informer that defendant was in possession of narcotics and that the room he occupied in a rooming house was being used as a “shooting gallery,” a place…