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WILLIAMS V. OKLAHOMA CITY, 395 U. S. 458 (1969)
395 U. S. 458U.S. Supreme Court
Williams v. Oklahoma City, 395 U.S. 458 (1969)
Williams v. Oklahoma City
No. 841
Argued April 1-2, 1969
Decided June 9, 1969
395 U.S. 458
Syllabus
The denial to petitioner, an indigent who was convicted of drunken driving, of a copy at public expense of the trial transcript which he needed to perfect an appeal, to which he was entitled "as a matter of right" under Oklahoma law, is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
439 P.2d 965, reversed and remanded.