People v. Snowdy

The People appeal from an order dismissing an information upon a motion made pursuant to Penal Code section 995.

The information charged Robert Snowdy, Dick Colean and Jesse Mark McMann with violation of section 640 of the Penal Code. The section deals with unauthorized interference with telegraph and telephone lines. The section specifies numerous acts which are punishable either as a felony or misdemeanor, but the particular act charged was that appellants “did willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, fraudulently and clandestinely tap and make an unauthorized connection with a telephone wire and…