People v. Robles

A jury convicted defendant of unlawfully possessing heroin. He was sentenced to state prison. He appeals from the judgment and order denying a new trial.

On May 7, 1959, Deputy Sheriff Austin, accompanied by Deputies Sells, Wilson, Miller, and Peterson, drove to the vicinity of defendant’s home in east Los Angeles. Before reaching defendant’s home, Austin left the car and walked past the house. Defendant was in the front yard. When Austin was three or four feet from defendant he (Austin) saw old scar tissue on defendant’s inner left elbow and fresh puncture wounds over the vein inside the old…