State v. Wong Hip Chung

Wong Hip Chung, being on trial for feloniously possessing narcotics, was acquitted by direction of the court. Judgment of dismissal followed from which the state has appealed.

The defendant’s motion upon which the court directed his acquittal was based upon three grounds: (1) The information does not state a public offense; (2) the officers entrapped the defendant into committing the crime; and (3) the defendant was not in such possession of the narcotics as the law characterizes as criminal. The trial court seems to have deemed the information sufficient, and in this we think it was correct.…