WILLIAMS v. GEORGIA.

No. 412.

349 U.S. 375 (1955)

WILLIAMS v. GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 6, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

By invitation of the Court, 348 U.S. 957, Eugene Gressman argued the cause and filed a brief, as amicus curiae, in support of petitioner. Carter Goode submitted on brief for petitioner.

E. Freeman Leverett and Robert H. Hall, Assistant Attorneys General of Georgia, argued the cause for respondent. With them on the brief was Eugene Cook, Attorney General.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Court has here under review the decision of a state court rejecting a claim of infirmity in a conviction for murder based on a constitutional ground raised for the first time in an extraordinary proceeding after the conviction had been affirmed on appeal. Respect for the State's administration of criminal justice requires a detailed narrative of the procedural course of this litigation and an adequate...

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