People v. Monteverde

CONLEY, J. *

After an extended jury trial, the defendant, Rene Monteverde was convicted of offering to sell heroin (Health & Saf. Code, § 11501); the indictment was as follows: ‘ ‘ The said Rene Monteverde on or about the 20th day of February, 1964, in the County of San Diego, State of California, and before the finding of this Indictment, did unlawfully offer to sel], furnish a narcotic, to wit, Heroin.”

The defendant’s motion for a new trial and his application for probation were denied, and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the California Institution for Men at Chino; however, sentence was…