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BETTS v. BRADY

No. 837.

316 U.S. 455 (1942)

BETTS v. BRADY, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Jesse Slingluff, Jr. and G. Van Velsor Wolf for petitioner.

Messrs. William C. Walsh, Attorney General of Maryland, and Robert E. Clapp, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. Morton E. Rome was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner was indicted for robbery in the Circuit Court of Carroll County, Maryland. Due to lack of funds, he was unable to employ counsel, and so informed the judge at his arraignment. He requested that counsel be appointed for him. The judge advised him that this would not be done, as it was not the practice in Carroll County to appoint counsel for indigent defendants...

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