People v. Cervantes

Defendant appeals from judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of an unlawful sale of a narcotic and of unlawful possession of a narcotic, each offense in violation of section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code. Defendant was also charged-with a prior conviction of a violation of the same code section, which charge he admitted.

The evidence revealed that George Alarcon, an undercover investigator for the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, was conducting an investigation of the narcotic traffic in Kings County. In the latter part of November 1958, Mr. Alarcon was…