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LEE v. MISSISSIPPI

No. 91.

332 U.S. 742 (1948)

LEE v. MISSISSIPPI.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forrest B. Jackson argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Richard Olney Arrington, Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Greek L. Rice, Attorney General.

MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves a question of procedure under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Does a defendant in a state criminal proceeding lose the right to contend that a confession was coerced because of his testimony that the confession was in fact never made?

Petitioner, a 17-year-old Negro. was indicted by a grand...

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