Thompson v. Harris

LARSON, Justice.

I dissent. I think the procedure followed as outlined by the Chief Justice was such a far departure from a fair trial, such a transgression of the constitutional and legal rights guaranteed a defendant, as to amount to depriving him of due process. I do not conceive how any proceeding which denies one a constitutional right can be termed “due process of law”; how an unconstitutional thing or act be said to be “the law of the land.”

There has here been entered up and made of record a conviction which this court has said is “all wet”, and a sentence imposed which we have said is…