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BENSON v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 26567.

57 Cal.2d 240 (1962)

368 P.2d 116

18 Cal. Rptr. 516

RALPH BENSON, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 22, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Ross for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

William B. McKesson, District Attorney, Harry Wood and Robert J. Lord, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.

TRAYNOR, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the Superior Court of Los Angeles County from taking further proceedings against him under a count of an indictment charging him with soliciting perjured testimony in violation of Penal Code section 653f.*

The Department of Social Welfare had been conducting an investigation of adoption practices in Los Angeles County. Mrs. Evelyn Scheingold, an investigator, visited...

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