People v. Clemison

Shortly after midnight two police officers, cruising in a patrol ear, observed an automobile standing on Wilshire Boulevard, near the Soldiers Home at Sawtelle. Three men were in the vicinity. One was behind the wheel of the car; another was standing on the sidewalk; the third was in a telephone booth.

The officers made a U-turn and came back to the automobile. By then the three men were seated in the car. The officers arrested them. Found in the ear were pieces of bent wire called “picks,’’.and other tools which could be used to pick the locks of coin boxes in pay telephones; also a paper bag…