Chessman v. Teets

Our writ of certiorari in this case was limited to the following question:

“whether, in the circumstances of this case, the state court proceedings to settle the trial transcript, upon which petitioner’s automatic appeal from his conviction was necessarily heard by the Supreme Court of the State of California, in which trial court proceedings petitioner allegedly was not represented in person or by counsel designated by the state court in his behalf, resulted in denying petitioner due process of law, within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.” 353…