GAYES v. NEW YORK

No. 405.

332 U.S. 145 (1947)

GAYES v. NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 23, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Wechsler argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Harry L. Rosenthal argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER announced the judgment of the Court in an opinion in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE REED and MR. JUSTICE JACKSON join.

This is another case in which release is sought from confinement under a sentence by a State court following a plea of guilty, on a claim of a denial of due process of law through want of benefit of counsel.

The circumstances are these. On July 15, 1938, Gayes, then a lad of sixteen, was arraigned in the County...

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