TAYLOR v. ALABAMA

No. 721.

335 U.S. 252 (1948)

TAYLOR v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 21, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurgood Marshall and Nesbitt Elmore argued the cause for petitioner. With them on the brief was Arthur D. Shores.

Bernard F. Sykes, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were A.A. Carmichael, Attorney General, and James L. Screws, Assistant Attorney General.


MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question in this case is whether the State of Alabama deprived the petitioner of due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment1 to the Constitution of the United States when the Supreme Court of that State denied him permission to file a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama. We hold that it did not. We hold also that the...

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