People v. McCottry

Defendant was convicted of violating section 11530 of the Health and Safety Code (possession of marijuana). He has appealed from the judgment and sentence and from the denial of his motion for a new trial.

Officer Richard Hill of the Los Angeles Police Department, Narcotics Division, was present when his partner, Sergeant Archibald, received a telephone call. After the call was completed, Archibald told Hill that the person with whom he had been talking informed him that defendant had marijuana in his possession, that he had brought it back from Tia Juana in a blue 1960 Cadillac coupe de…