Chambers v. Florida

delivered' the opinion of the Court.

The grave question presented by the petition for cer-tiorari, granted in forma pauperis, 1 is whether proceedings in which confessions, were utilized, and which culminated in sentences of death upon four young negro men in the State of Florida, failed to afford the safeguard of that due process of law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. 2

First. The State of Florida challenges our jurisdiction to look behind the judgments below claiming that the issues of fact upon which petitioners base their claim that due process was denied them have been finally…