People v. O'Brand

Having been convicted of attempted burglary in the second degree defendants have assigned five errors as grounds for reversal of the judgment.

They contend that their cause was prejudiced by the court’s allowing “evidence of narcotics to be introduced.” The fact that such proof might have been prejudicial is not a ground for exclusion. The objection to it was made in the course of the testimony of a police officer who was detailing the conversation had between the narcotic inspector and appellant Beck. After the latter had answered that he was not using narcotics, in response to other…