Court Opinion

ID: 9724944
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:22:13.44237+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:08.119660
License: Public Domain

DRAPER, P. J.
I concur in the judgment, although with some misgivings. Under the broad language of the ordinance, one carrying an ordinary pocketknife while sitting on a bench awaiting a bus could conceivably be charged and convicted. The ordinance seems to me to be saved only by construing the phrase “loaf or loiter” as bearing a “sinister or wrongful” implication (In re Hoffman, 61 Cal.2d 845, 853 [64 Cal.Rptr. 97, 434 P.2d 353]).
The petition of the plaintiff and respondent for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied December 30, 1975. Mosk, J., and Sullivan, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.