Andersen v. Treat

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued November 8, 1898
Decided November 14, 1898

Full case name

John Andersen v. Treat

Citations

19 S. Ct. 67; 43 L. Ed. 351; 1898 U.S. LEXIS 1638

Prior history

Court membership

Chief Justice Melville Fuller

Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown George Shiras, Jr. · Edward D. White Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna

Case opinions

Majority

Fuller, joined by unanimous

Andersen v. Treat, 172 U.S. 24 (1898), was a United States Supreme Court case in which John Andersen was convicted of the murder of William Wallace Sanders, who was his mate on the ship Olive Pecket. Andersen was found guilty and sentenced to death, but petitioned the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia for a writ of habeas corpus, under the claim that he had been deprived of his right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion of the Court affirming the order of the lower court.

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