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heroin to Johnny and the three would smoke some of it. Johnny paid Toy $600 for each "piece." On three other occasions Wong Sun and Toy went to Johnny's without bringing heroin, and smoked heroin there and obtained some for themselves.

About four days before the arrest [the arrest was on June 4],[1] Toy gave Wong Sun $450 and, after the latter obtained the heroin, Toy phoned Johnny, and Toy and Wong Sun drove to Johnny's house at about midnight. Toy gave the heroin to Johnny in a rubber contraceptive enclosed in a small brown bag.

On the night before the arrest, before 11 p.m., Toy phoned Johnny, and the two went to Johnny's to smoke heroin for half an hour. They also obtained one "paper" of heroin for their own use later.

2. Toy's confession (Exhibit 3).

Toy's confession included the following statements: He first met Wong Sun, known to him as "Sea Dog," about three months before June 5, 1959, at Marysville, California, during a Chinese holiday. Toy drove him back to San Francisco.

Sometime during April or May of 1959, Wong Sun asked Toy to drive him to the home of Johnny Yee, at 11th and Balboa Streets, first asking Toy to phone Johnny that they were coming. Wong Sun there delivered to Johnny a paper package of heroin and, upon Toy's request, gave him some which he

  1. This would place the date on May 31 and the post-midnight events on June 1.