Legal Opinion
People v. Kirk
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 31, 1989No. C001376PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMS, J.
Did defendant’s possession at the same time and place of two sawed-off shotguns constitute two separate violations of former Penal Code section 12020, subdivision (a)? We hold it did not, so that one of defendant’s two convictions of that offense must be reversed. (All further statutory references to sections of an undesignated code are to the Penal Code.)
A jury convicted defendant Larry Wilbur Kirk of first degree burglary as charged in counts I and II of the information (§§ 459, 460), illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun as charged in count III (former § 12020, subd.…
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