PEOPLE v. WHITSITT

Docket No. 68, Calendar No. 49,506.

366 Mich. 609 (1962)

115 N.W.2d 306

PEOPLE v. WHITSITT.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided May 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Eugene Krasicky, Solicitor General, James R. Ramsey, Assistant Attorney General, George Parris, Prosecuting Attorney, and Daniel Cosmenco, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Robert N. Smiley, for defendant.


KAVANAGH, J.

Defendant appeals from an order denying a motion for new trial. He is presently serving a life sentence in the State prison of Southern Michigan imposed by a Macomb county circuit judge on September 9, 1933, following defendant's plea of guilty to a charge of murder and armed robbery.

Defendant contends he was denied due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution since he was deprived of counsel at the time of arraignment...

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