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Title: Argersinger v. Hamlin
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 12, 1972
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 85 KB

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Petitioner, an indigent, was charged in Florida with carrying a concealed weapon, an offense punishable by imprisonment up to six months, a $1,000 fine, or both. The trial was to a judge, and petitioner was unrepresented by counsel. He was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail, and brought this habeas corpus action in the Florida Supreme Court, alleging that, being deprived of his right to counsel, he was unable as an indigent layman properly to raise and present to the trial court good and sufficient defenses to the charge for which he stands convicted. The Florida