Pippin v. Sheffield

Grice, Justice.

We review here a judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging the prisoner from the custody of the warden. The prisoner, C. C. Sheffield, filed his petition in the Superior Court of Jefferson County against W. B. Pippin, warden of the Jefferson Prison Branch, alleging that he was being illegally detained by the warden in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution and Art. I, Sec. I, Par. V of the State Constitution, in that he was denied counsel at his 1959 arraignment, plea of guilty and sentencing to a term of four years.

Under our view of the…