Court Opinion

ID: 9736533
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 18:58:59.091567+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:07.234174
License: Public Domain

AISO, J.
I concur in the judgment of reversal. Since this ease involves a liquor store, the holdings in People v. Lopez (1967) 249 Cal.App.2d 93, 103 [57 Cal.Rptr. 441], and People v. Mitchell (1966) 239 Cal.App.2d 318, 328 [48 Cal.Rptr. 533], that a violation of section 602, subdivision (l), of the Penal Code is not a lesser and necessarily included offense to a burglary pleaded in statutory language (Pen. Code, § 459), constitute adequate authority to reverse the judgment of conviction. While aware of People v. Wilkinson (1967) 248 Cal.App.2d Supp. 906, 910 [56 Cal.Rptr. 261], I deem it unnecessary to decide in this case whether section 602, subdivision (l), applies to vacant lands. Numerous other subdivisions of section 602 are couched in language applicable to vacant lands. Both their applicability and interplay with subdivision (l) should be considered, if we are to resolve this question. It would appear appropriate to observe: (1) Finding defendant guilty of violating section 602, subdivision (l), even though that section is not a lesser and necessarily included offense, operated as an acquittal of the burglary charge. (People v. Harris (1961) 191 Cal.App.2d 754, 759 [12 Cal.Rptr. 916].) (2) No new midemeanor can be charged presently as the record shows a lapse of more than one year even from the date of the filing of the current information (Pen. Code, §801), thereby disclosing a jurisdictional bar. (People v. Rehman (1964) 62 Cal.2d 135, 139 [41 Cal.Rptr. 457, 396 P.2d 913]; People v. McGee (1934) 1 Cal.2d 611, 613 [36 P.2d 378].) (3) Failure to charge other felonies or misdemeanors, if any, arising out of the same transaction in the currently filed information also bars the filing of such charges at this time. (Pen. Code, § 654; Kellett v. Superior Court (1966) 63 Cal.2d 822 [48 Cal.Rptr. 366, 409 P.2d 206].) Unless the prosecutor can present facts rendering these observations inapplicable, the information should be dismissed.