In Re Hochberg

Opinion

WRIGHT, C. J.

Petitioner and her husband, represented by the same counsel, were jointly tried by jury in municipal court on charges that they wilfully failed to support their three minor children in violation of Penal Code section 270. 1 The Appellate Department of the Los Angeles County Superior Court affirmed the judgments against them without opinion and denied certification to the Court of Appeal.

In this habeas corpus proceeding petitioner contends that she was denied the constitutional right to effective trial counsel. She made this contention in a prior application for habeas…