Kimball v. Sadaoka

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

MENOR, J.

The appellant had been convicted for unlawful possession of harmful drugs in the circuit court of the first circuit. She appealed her conviction to this court, and on November 10, 1972, we affirmed the judgment and sentence of the trial court. State v. Kimball, 54 Haw. 83, 503 P.2d 176 (1972). No petition for a rehearing was ever initiated by the appellant.

On August 10,1973, she filed in the circuit court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that she had been denied her constitutional right to effective counsel in her first appeal to this court. The…