Benson v. Superior Court

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 petitioner, an attorney, and told him that she was pregnant, that she wished to have the child adopted, and that the child’s father was unknown, since she had been living with…