AVAN v. MUNICIPAL COURT

Docket No. L.A. 28242.

62 Cal.2d 630 (1965)

401 P.2d 227

43 Cal. Rptr. 835

BENJAMIN D. AVAN, Petitioner, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE LOS ANGELES JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 28, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Arnebergh, City Attorney, Bourke Jones and Marcus E. Crahan, Jr., Assistant City Attorneys, for Petitioner.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, George W. Wakefield, Chief Assistant County Counsel, and Edward H. Gaylord, Assistant County Counsel, for Respondent.


McCOMB, J.

Petitioner is an attorney at law and is the duly appointed Public Defender of the City of Los Angeles.

He seeks a writ of mandate commanding respondent court to comply with the requirements of section 987a of the Penal Code by determining, and awarding to him, a reasonable sum for compensation and for necessary expenses due him on account of his representing in respondent court, as court-appointed counsel, a person charged therein with a misdemeanor...

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