IN RE BRANCH

Docket No. Crim. 11483.

70 Cal.2d 200 (1969)

449 P.2d 174

74 Cal. Rptr. 238

In re ROBERT A. BRANCH on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 21, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Branch, in pro. per., Thomas W. Bell, Jr., under appointment by the Supreme Court, and MacDonell, Bell & Sandberg for Petitioner.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, Roger E. Venturi, Edward A. Hinz, Jr., and Daniel J. Kremer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


PETERS, J.

This petition involves petitioner's claim of inadequacy of his representation in that his counsel failed to investigate his claim that prior to or during the trial he had told his counsel that he had information that other named convicts had committed the offense with which he was charged. Based on the entire record, we find that petitioner did not tell his counsel of these facts prior to or during the trial, and that the information given the attorney...

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