Jean L. Chester v. The People of the State of California

I agree with the opinion of the Court so far as it remands the case for consideration of appellant’s allegations that he was denied the right to counsel at arraignment and that his plea was improperly induced. I would expand the hearing on remand to include the issues raised by appellant’s allegation that the state denied him counsel at preliminary examination.

The relevant facts, conceded or alleged, are these. Appellant was born October 21, 1928. He left school in the eighth grade. In December 1945, when he was seventeen years of age, he was committed to a state institution on a charge of…