Opinion ID: 1358008
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Heading: Multiple Convictions Based on One Indivisible Transaction

Text: [15] The information charges and there is evidence that on April 3d defendant Roberts transported, furnished, and possessed heroin. Each of these acts is denounced by section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code. The three acts are charged and adjudged as separate crimes. However, cooperative acts constituting but one offense when committed by the same person at the same time, when combined, charge but one crime and but one punishment can be inflicted. ( People v. Clemett (1929), 208 Cal. 142, 144 [280 P. 681]; see, also, People v. Knowles (1950), 35 Cal.2d 175, 187 [217 P.2d. 1].) [16] The present case resembles the Clemett case in that the only possession and transportation of heroin shown were those necessarily incident to its sale. And as in the Clemett case (p. 150 of 208 Cal.) the error can be corrected by this court. For the reasons above stated the judgment is affirmed as to counts (1) and (3) and reversed as to counts (2) and (4), and the order denying a new trial is affirmed.