CICENIA v. LAGAY

No. 177.

357 U.S. 504 (1958)

CICENIA v. LAGAY, SUPERINTENDENT, NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON FARM.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson R. Debevoise argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

C. William Caruso argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Grover C. Richman, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, and Charles V. Webb, Jr.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are asked to reverse under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States a state conviction which was entered upon a plea of non vult to an indictment for first degree murder.

In the evening of March 17, 1947, Charles Kittuah, the owner of a small dry goods store in Newark, New Jersey, was shot and killed...

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