NEWSOM v. SMYTH

No. 116.

365 U.S. 604 (1961)

NEWSOM v. SMYTH, SUPERINTENDENT, VIRGINIA STATE PENITENTIARY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armistead L. Boothe, acting under appointment by the Court, 363 U.S. 833, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Reno S. Harp III, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was A. S. Harrison, Jr., Attorney General.


PER CURIAM.

A writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Virginia was granted in this case, 363 U.S. 802, in the belief that it duly presented for the Court's consideration the question whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution requires that the State must, in appropriate circumstances, appoint counsel to assist an indigent prisoner under sentence of conviction for a...

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