People v. Smith

The trial court sitting without a jury, found defendant guilty of a felony violation of section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code. It also found that he was previously convicted of narcotic addiction (Health & Saf. Code, § 11721), a misdemeanor, and sentenced him to imprisonment in the state prison for a term prescribed by law. (See Health & Saf. Code, § 11712.) Defendant appeals.

A police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, on the day before the arrest, received information from an informer that defendant had just purchased a “spoonful of heroin” and that it would be on his person…