Gayes v. New York (332 U.S. 145)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 23, 1947 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 332 U.S. 145 · 67 S. Ct. 1711
- Decided
- June 23, 1947
- Term
- October Term 1946
- Vote
- 5–4
- Majority author
- Justice Frankfurter
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Frankfurter announced the judgment of the Court in an opinion in which The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Reed and Mr. Justice Jackson join. This is another case in which release is sought from confinement under a sentence by a State court following a plea of guilty, on a claim of a denial of due process of law through want of benefit of counsel. The circumstances are these. On July 15, 1938, Gayes, then a lad of sixteen, was arraigned in the County Court of Monroe County, New York, upon an indictment charging burglary in the third degree and petty larceny. According to the record of conviction, he was asked, in accordance with the requirement of § 308 of the New York Code of Criminal Procedure, whether “he desired the aid of counsel,” and he answered “No.” Imposition of sentence was postponed to July 28. When on that day Gayes appeared for judgment, he was asked, again according to the requirements of New York law, whether “he had any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against him.” New York Code of Criminal Procedure § 480. And “no sufficient cause appearing,” the record continues, Gayes was committed to a New York State Vocational School to be dealt with there according to law. It appears from the facts before us that Gayes did not stay at this correctional institution as long as New York law would have authorized his detention. See New York…
Excerpt of a 18,340-character opinion. The full text and citation network load in the interactive viewer above.