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PALMER v. ASHE.

No. 38.

342 U.S. 134 (1951)

PALMER v. ASHE, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis B. Schwartz, acting under appointment by the Court, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Leonard H. Levenson argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was William S. Rahauser.

Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE BLACK, announced by MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER.

This Court has repeatedly held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford defendants assistance of counsel in noncapital criminal cases when there are special circumstances showing that without a lawyer a defendant could not have an adequate and a fair defense.* Petitioner, a prisoner in a Pennsylvania penitentiary, is...

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