United States Ex Rel. Nathaniel Williams v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, N. Y.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from denial of a petition by a state prisoner for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Irving Ben Cooper, Judge. We find error and remand for hearing.

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this case is the circumstance that its critical events occurred either before or . during what can .fairly be called a revolution in the rights of the indigent accused. Fortunately, recent legislative and judicial rules insure that criminal defendants receive the full panoply of constitutional…